Milan Milutinović

Milan Milutinović
Милан Милутиновић
Milutinović in 2005
President of Serbia
In office
29 December 1997  29 December 2002
Prime MinisterMirko Marjanović
Milomir Minić
Zoran Đinđić
Preceded byDragan Tomić (acting)
Slobodan Milošević
Succeeded byNataša Mićić (Acting)
Boris Tadić
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia
In office
15 August 1995  8 January 1998
Preceded byVladislav Jovanović
Succeeded byŽivadin Jovanović
Personal details
Born(1942-12-19)19 December 1942
Belgrade, German-occupied Serbia
Died2 July 2023(2023-07-02) (aged 80)
Belgrade, Serbia
Political partySKJ (until 1990)
SPS (1990–2023)
Spouse
Olga Milutinović
(m. 1970; died 2017)
EducationUniversity of Belgrade

Milan Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Милутиновић, pronounced [mǐlan milǔtinoʋitɕ] ; 19 December 1942 – 2 July 2023) was a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 1997 to 2002.

Milutinović served as Secretary for Education and Science of Serbia (1977–1982), Director of the National Library of Serbia (1983–1987), Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Greece (1989–1995), Yugoslavia's Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–1997). After his presidential term expired in December 2002, he surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia where he was tried for war crimes. He was found not guilty on all charges on 26 February 2009.