Ilija Djukic was a Yugoslavian

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 diplomat who reached the post of Foreign Minister for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia towards the end of his career.

Djukic attended the Institute for Political Sciences in Beijing

Beijing

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, graduating in 1959. The Yugoslavian foreign service proceeded to give him a succession of posts in the Far East

Far East

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, until he was moved to Eastern Europe

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 and Moscow

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in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1990, he again returned to Beijing, now as an ambassador. From 1992 to 1993, he was made foreign minister. His final post was as ambassador to Beijing from 2000 to 2002.

External links

• Ilija Djukic biography at Republic of Serbia Ministry of Foreign Affairs