The former president of Serbia, Milan Milutinovic, died on July 2 at 81 years of age, his party colleague Ivica Dacic, leader of the Socialist Party (SPS), announced. Dacic is the current foreign minister and deputy prime minister of Serbia. Milutinovic held office as president of the-then constituent state of Serbia within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2002. He was considered a close associate of Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic, who was indicted for war crimes. Milutinovic was also indicted by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague in 1999. In 2003, Milutinovic surrendered to the tribunal and was acquitted of all charges in 2009.
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