Zoran Lilić

Infobox_President
name=Zoran Lilić
Зоран Лилић


nationality=Serbian
order=2nd President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
term_start=25 June 1993
term_end=July 23 1997
primeminister=Radoje Kontić
predecessor=Dobrica Ćosić
successor=Slobodan Milošević
birth_date=Birth date and age|1953|8|27|mf=y
birth_place=Brza Palanka, Serbia (former Yugoslavia)
death_date=
death_place=
party=Socialist Party of Serbia

Zoran Lilić - Lilke (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Лилић); b. August 27 1953, Brza Palanka, Serbia (former Yugoslavia) was Speaker of the National Assembly of Serbia in 1993 and President of Yugoslavia from 1993 to 1997.

In his native village he finished primary and secondary school. He graduated from the Technological Faculty in Belgrade. He worked in a rubber factory, "Rekord" in Rakovica and after 12 years of performing various duties he was appointed director general.

He was an MP of the SPS in the National Assembly of Serbia, and then he became the Speaker of the National Assembly. He became the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after Dobrica Ćosić. He remained at the forefront of Third Yugoslavia until 1997. year when he became the SPS candidate for the President of Serbia. After the unsuccessful second round with Vojislav Šešelj he became vice president of the Federal Government in the cabinet of Momir Bulatović, and he remained on this duty until April 1999. year when he was appointed advisor to the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević for economic relations with Croatia. At that time he performed the functions of chairman of Jugotransport and the president of Chess Association of Yugoslavia. He left SPS in 2000 founded the Serbian Socialdemocratic Party, which he claims to be following the idea of Svetozar Marković. His party did not have success in election.

Lilić involved himself in attempting to sort out the HIV trial in Libya, where five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death for allegedly infecting Libyan babies with the HIV virus. Lilić reportedly falsely posed as an envoy or messenger of the Bulgarian president, Georgi Parvanov. [ [http://standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2007-03-03&article=3589 "Impostor Defends Bulgarian Nurses before Gaddafi"] ]

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