Nikola Šainović
Prime Minister of Serbia (1993–1994) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nikola Šainović (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Шаиновић, born 7 December 1948) is a Serbian politician. A close associate of Slobodan Milošević, he held several important state functions of Serbia and FR Yugoslavia during the 1990s. He has been a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia since the party's foundation.
Nikola Šainović | |
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Никола Шаиновић | |
Deputy Prime Minister of FR Yugoslavia | |
In office 22 February 1994 – 9 October 2000 | |
President | Slobodan Milošević |
Prime Minister | Radoje Kontić Momir Bulatović |
Prime Minister of Serbia | |
In office 10 February 1993 – 18 March 1994 | |
President | Slobodan Milošević |
Deputy | Srboljub Vasović Zoran Aranđelović Saša Anđelković Danilo Z. Marković Dragoslav Jovanović |
Preceded by | Radoman Božović |
Succeeded by | Mirko Marjanović |
Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia | |
In office 23 December 1991 – 10 February 1993 | |
Prime Minister | Radoman Božović |
Preceded by | Velimir Radivojević Nikola Stanić Budimir Košutić |
Succeeded by | Danilo Z. Marković Dragoslav Jovanović |
Minister of Energy and Mining | |
In office 11 February 1991 – 10 February 1993 | |
Prime Minister | Dragutin Zelenović Radoman Božović |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Vladimir Živanović |
Personal details | |
Born | (1948-12-07) 7 December 1948 (age 75) Bor, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia |
Political party | League of Communists of Serbia (1977–90) Socialist Party of Serbia (1990–present) |
Spouse | Svetlana Šainović |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | University of Belgrade University of Ljubljana |
Occupation | Politician |
He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of FR Yugoslavia in charge of foreign affairs from 1994 to 2000, and represented Milošević as his emissary in Kosovo affairs from October 1998 during the Kosovo War. He previously served as the Prime Minister of Serbia from 1993 to 1994 and as the minister of Energy and Mining of Serbia and the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia from 1991 to 1992.
In 2009, he was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague (ICTY) for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against ethnic Albanian civilians in 1999 during the Kosovo War. In 2015, he was granted early release after serving two-thirds of his sentence.[1]