Mirko Marjanović

Mirko Marjanović (born July 27, 1937 in Knin , Croatia , † February 21, 2006 in Belgrade ) was a Serbian politician and Prime Minister of Serbia from 1994 to 2000 .

Life

After attending school, Marjanović first began studying at the Zagreb Academy of Music , which he did not graduate. He then began studying at the Faculty of Economics with a focus on microeconomics at the University of Belgrade , which he graduated in 1960. He then returned to his hometown and became supervisor of a factory in Knin and then financial director of a metallurgical plant in Zenica . In 1973 he joined the Moscow branch of Progres , an import - export - companies that lucrative contracts with oil , natural gas and minerals from Russia negotiated. In 1976 he first became director and was then general director of Progres from 1979 to 2002 . He also acted as director of the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce . He was also involved as a sports official and was at times both Vice President of the Yugoslav Football Association and President of the FK Partizan Belgrade football club .

In addition to his professional career, Marjanović succeeded Nikola Šainović on March 18, 1994 as Prime Minister of Serbia. After being re-elected in 1998, he held this office until October 24, 2000. The war in Kosovo , which began in January 1998, fell during his term of office . He misjudged the situation and initially assumed that the armed ethnic Albanian separatists of the KLA had been defeated in Kosovo . The conflict in the rebellious province of Serbia was actually just beginning.

After a pro-democratic movement had overthrown the autocratic ruling President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević on October 5, 2000 and installed a new democratic president with Vojislav Koštunica on October 7, 2000, Marjanović resigned as Prime Minister on October 24, 2000 and was replaced by Milomir Minić replaced. Most recently he took over the office of Interior Minister from Vlajko Stojiljković on October 11, 2000, and as such was also responsible for the Serbian police until his resignation on October 24, 2000 .

Marjanović was a close confidante of Milošević for a long time, but lost his favor after he was extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague in 2001 because of his leadership roles in the Yugoslav wars. From his detention cell, Milošević appointed him chairman of the Socialist Party of Serbia ( Socijalistička Partija Srbije ), but released him from this position in 2002.

Web links

• Short biography (rulers.org)
• List of Prime Ministers of Serbia (rulers.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minister of Serbia (rulers.org)