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30th September 1927 |
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Cevo, Montenegro, Yugoslavia |
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Milo Äukanović (Мило Ђукановић in Cyrillic) (born February 15, 1962 in NikÅ¡ić) is the current Prime Minister of the state of Montenegro, within the state union of Serbia and Montenegro. He has served in this role since November 26, 2002, after resigning the position of president the previous day. He had previously served as Montenegrin prime minister between 1991 and 1997.
Äukanović was born in NikÅ¡ić. In his youth, he became involved with the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), before joining the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1979.
In 1991, at the age of 29, he rose to the post of Montenegrin prime minister for the first time, with the support of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević. At this time, he was the youngest prime minister in Europe. In addition, the post of prime minister was his first working post.
From 1991 till 1997 he was one of the chief supporters and executors of Slobodan Milošević's policy. His Government is said to be responsible, among many things, for arrest of Muslim refugees from Bosnia throughout Montenegro and their handover to forces of Bosnian Serbs. (Most of the prisoners were killed after the handover.)
In 1996, he began to fall out with MiloÅ¡ević, publicly blasting him in an interview. At that time MiloÅ¡ević was facing harsh criticism in Serbia with student protests in the Winter of 1996/1997. This was in stark contrast to the stance of Momir Bulatović who was then both president of Montenenegro and the pro-MiloÅ¡ević Democratic Party of Socialists. Bulatović's protégé wrested control of the party and the republic from his mentor. Äukanović won a narrow, but majority support in the DPS party and cleansed the party of pro-Bulatović supporters while taking over the state-controlled media and the security apparatus with the help of his DPS ally VukaÅ¡in MaraÅ¡.
In July of 1997, Äukanović contested Bulatović for the position of president of Montenegro. In the first round of the elections, Äukanović lagged by 2000 votes behind Bulatović (a staunch ally of Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević). Three of the other candidates, who received 11,000 votes, gave support to Bulatović for the second round. However, in second round vote seen as the most significant electoral victory in Montenegro's history by Äukanović's supporters, Äukanović won the elections by a margin of five thousand, after assembling 29,000 more votes than in the first round. There were some serious doubts about the regularity of this second round.
Since the downfall of Milošević, he has struggled with Serbia over the issue of Montenegrin independence. His pro-independence policy resulted in a compromise some see as having been imposed by the European Union and its foreign policy chief Javier Solana, with the creation of the new state union of Serbia and Montenegro (replacing the two-republic Federal Yugoslavia), but this also caused fallout with elements of his supporters who wanted him to push for full independence.
Trivia
Milo Djukanović is a former basketball player, as such he is a rather tall statesman. At six feet two inches tall (1.88cm) he often towers above his counterparts, chiefly those of the far east.
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Nikola Miljanić | MiloÅ¡ RaÅ¡ović | Nikola KovaÄević | Blažo Jovanović | Filip Bajković | Andrija MugoÅ¡a | Veljko Milatović | Vidoje Žarković | Veselin Äuranović | Marko Orlandić | Miodrag Vlahović | Branislav Å oÅ¡kić | Radivoje Brajović | Božina Ivanović | Branko Kostić | Momir Bulatović | Milo Äukanović | Filip Vujanović |
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