The former president of Serbia, Milan Milutinović, died at the age of 81, said the president of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Ivica Dačić.
"The last greetings to Milan Milutinović, the former president of Serbia and former vice-president of the SPS," said Dacic on Instagram.
As reported by the RTS portal, Milutinović was the president of Serbia from 1997 to 2002.
He was born in Belgrade in 1942, where he completed elementary school and high school, and graduated in 1965 from the Faculty of Law in that city.
From 1969 to 1971, he was a member of the presidency of the Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia.
Milutinović was a member of the socio-political council of the Federal Assembly from 1969 to 1974 and a member of the foreign policy committee.
At the same time, he was the president of the Municipal Committee of the Union of Communists of Vračar and a member of the City Committee of SK Belgrade.
From 1974 to 1977, he was the Secretary for Ideology of the City Committee of the League of Communists in Belgrade.
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