Momir Bulatović

Momir Bulatović
Момир Булатовић
Bulatović in 2015
3rd Prime Minister of the FR Yugoslavia
In office
19 May 1998  4 November 2000
PresidentSlobodan Milošević
Vojislav Koštunica
Preceded byRadoje Kontić
Succeeded byZoran Žižić
1st President of the Republic of Montenegro
In office
23 December 1990  15 January 1998
Prime MinisterMilo Đukanović
Preceded byBranko Kostić
(as President of the Presidency)
Succeeded byMilo Đukanović
Personal details
Born(1956-09-21)21 September 1956
Belgrade, Socialist Republic of Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Died30 June 2019(2019-06-30) (aged 62)
Raći, Podgorica Municipality, Montenegro
NationalityMontenegrin
Political partySKJ (1980s–1991)
DPS (1991–1997)
SNP (1997–2001)
NSS (2001–2009)
NSD (2009–2019)
Alma materUniversity of Montenegro
ProfessionEconomist, politician

Momir Bulatović (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Момир Булатовић; 21 September 1956 – 30 June 2019) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He was the first president of the Republic of Montenegro from 1990 to 1998, after which he served as the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1998 until 2000, when Slobodan Milošević was overthrown. He was a leader of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro from 1989 to 1997, when he split from DPS after a conflict with Milo Đukanović.

During his mandate as president of Montenegro within Yugoslavia, he oversaw the engagement of Montenegrin reservists in the Yugoslav People's Army in the siege of Dubrovnik as well as in the Bosnian War. According to Florence Hartmann, Bulatović was subject to an investigation by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but was not charged. He was a defense witness in the trials of Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadžić, and Nikola Šainović at the ICTY.