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Vuk Drašković, Ministar spoljnih poslova Srbije i Crne Gore

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VUK DRAŠKOVIĆ
Minister for Foreign Affairs, State Union of Serbia and Montenegro




Born on 29 November 1946, Serbia.

Graduated from the Law Faculty in Belgrade in 1968.

From 1969 to 1980 a journalist with the National News Agency "Tanjug". He was a Tanjug correspondent for more than three years.



In 1980 he decided to quit journalism and devote his time to literary writing. His novels "The Judge", "Knife", "Prayer", "Russian Consul" and "The Night of the General" were bestsellers in the country and abroad. Some of them were translated into English, French, Russian, Greek, Romanian, Czech and many other languages.



In 1990 Vuk Draskovic neglected book-writing to found the Serbian Renewal Movement party. During the ten years long struggle against the regime of Slobodan Milosevic he lead Democratic opposition parties of Serbia. He strongly opposed the wars, war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. The Milosevic regime murdered several dozen of the leading members of the Serbian Renewal Movement party and Mr. Vuk Draskovic himself was arrested twice (in 1991 and 1993). The second time his wife Danica was also arrested and they were both subjected to the most brutal torture in police custody. His wife Danica and himself were released thanks to the pressure exerted by the most influential international community officials including the USA President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Jeltsin, French President Francois Mitterrand and his wife Danielle, Greek Prime Minister Constantin Mitsotakis, British Prime Minister John Major and many other who advocated their release most resolutely.

In October 1999 and in June 2000 Slobodan Milosevic ordered the secret police to assassinate Mr. Draskovic when four of Mr. Draskovic’s closest associates were murdered.



Since 1990 he has been a member of the Parliament of Serbia three times.

He has been insisting on the cantonization of Kosovo since 1990.



He has been in favor of Serbia and Montenegro joining the "Partnership for Peace" and NATO as well as of its participation in the fight against global terrorism.
He advocated all-round relations with the USA, European Union, Russia, Japan, China, countries of the "third world" and the Balkan neighboring countries.
Since 1996 Mr. Draskovic has committed himself to the fulfillment of all obligations towards the Hague Tribunal and he has reaffirmed that commitment.

He speaks English and Russian.

source TGI 2005

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