Zoran Stanković

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Zoran Stanković (2011)

Zoran Stanković (born November 9, 1954 in Tegovište , Vladičin Han municipality ) is a Serbian doctor and politician.

He studied medicine with a focus on forensic medicine at the University of Niš and received his doctorate in 1997 with a thesis on the forensic assessment of war dead. He worked as a military doctor, became head of the forensic medicine department of the Military Medical Academy, was promoted to major general and was director of the Belgrade Military Hospital from 2002 to 2005. He was a member of the Serbian-Montenegrin Truth Commission .

From October 2005 he was Minister of Defense of Serbia and Montenegro , then until 2007 of Serbia. On March 14, 2011, he was appointed health minister of his country as the successor to the resigned Tomica Milosavljević . He does not belong to any political party; he was proposed for the office of health minister by the G17 Plus party .

Stanković publicly referred to himself as a friend of Ratko Mladić and visited him in custody after his arrest in May 2011.

Web links

  • CV on the homepage of the Serbian Ministry of Health (Serbian / Cyrillic)
  • Biography on vreme.com (Serbian, Latin script, with picture)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prosecution will be read this week. In: the daily newspaper . June 1, 2011, accessed June 1, 2011 . , The indictment against Mladic will be read out on Friday. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 1, 2011, accessed June 1, 2011 .