Mirko Šarović

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Mirko Šarović

Mirko Šarović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Мирко Шаровић ; born September 16, 1956 in Rogatica , Yugoslavia ) is a Bosnian politician of the Srpska Demokratska Stranka (SDS), of Serbian ethnicity. From January 2000 to November 2002 he was President of the Republika Srpska .

As President, he signed on March 5, 2001 together with the Yugoslav President Vojislav Koštunica the treaty on special relations between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republika Srpska. After the end of his term as president, he acted from October 2002 to April 2003 as the Serbian representative in the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On April 2, 2003, Šarović was arrested for an illegal arms deal with Iraq and subsequently removed from office.