Ilija Đukić

Serbian diplomat (1930–2002)

Ilija Đukić Илија Ђукић

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia
In office 30 September 1992 – 4 March 1993
Preceded by	Vladislav Jovanović
Succeeded by	Vladislav Jovanović

Personal details
Born	(1930-01-04)4 January 1930 Novi Rujac, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died	22 October 2002(2002-10-22) (aged 72) Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Political party	Democratic Party

Ilija Đukić (January 4, 1930 in Novi Rujac – October 22, 2002 in Belgrade) was a Serbian diplomat who held the post of Foreign Minister for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Career

Đukić attended the Institute for Political Sciences in Beijing, China graduating in 1959. The Yugoslav foreign service proceeded to give him a succession of posts in the Far East, until he was moved to Eastern Europe and Moscow in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1990, he again returned to Beijing, now as an Ambassador.^[1]

From 1992 to 1993, he was serving as the Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia.^[2]

His final post was as the Yugoslav Ambassador to China from 2000 to 2002.

References

^ Foreign Broadcast Information Service (1990). Daily Report: People's Republic of China. National Technical Information Service. p. 17.
^ Michael R. Gordon (2 October 1992). "BUSH BACKS A BAN ON COMBAT FLIGHTS IN BOSNIA AIRSPACE". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-16. Belgrade Government's new Foreign Minister, Ilija Djukic

Government offices
Preceded by Vladislav Jovanović	Minister of Foreign Affairs 1992 – 1993	Succeeded by Vladislav Jovanović

External links

Ilija Djukic biography at Republic of Serbia Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Yugoslav government-in-exile

National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia

Josip Smodlaka

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Serbia and Montenegro^A

A: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) claim on sole legal succession to SFR Yugosla was rejected in UNSCR 777 which reaffirmed shared succession formally agreed in early 2000s. See also foreign ministers of: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia.