Goran Svilanovic
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Goran Svilanović is a Serbia
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n politician, the Chairman of Working Table I of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
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The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe was an institution aimed at strengthening peace, democracy, human rights and economy in the countries of South Eastern Europe from 1999-2008. It was replaced by the Regional Co-operation Council in February 2008...

.

Svilanović's father Tihomir holds a doctoral degree in agricultural science while mother Stavrula is an accountant. He spent his childhood in Kosovo before prior to his family moving to Belgrade when he was seven.

He graduated from the University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...

's Law School
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 with an LL.B. and LL.M. He studied at the Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg
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 and received the Sasakawa Foundation fellowship in 1990. He also studied at the Faculty of Law in Saarbrücken
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 and at the European Peace University in Austria. Svilanović was dismissed from the University of Belgrade when he publicly opposed the controversial University law in 1998, where he worked as a teaching assistant. He also worked for several human rights and anti war organizations in Serbia.

Active in politics in way or another since 1993, he became the vice-president of the Civic Alliance of Serbia
Civic Alliance of Serbia
Civic Alliance of Serbia was a social-liberal party in Serbia.Known widely by its three-letter acronym in Serbian, GSS was founded and registered in 1992...

 (Građanski savez Srbije) in 1998, and became the party's president in 1999. News of this promotion found him on location in uniform during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
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, as he was drafted and had to serve.

His party never enjoyed wide popular support, but it was part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia
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The Democratic Opposition of Serbia was a wide alliance of political parties in Serbia , formed as a coalition against the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia and its leader, Slobodan Milošević in 2000...

 (DOS) coalition, and as such has participated in the government from 2000 until late 2003. Svilanović himself held a high-ranking post as FR Yugoslavia's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 until 2004.

In Serbian parliamentary elections in December 2003, the Civic Alliance of Serbia nominated its members on the Democratic Party's
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 ballot. They won 12.6% of the votes, and Svilanović was a member of parliament since January 2004.

In December 2004, Svilanović resigned as president of the Civic Alliance of Serbia
Civic Alliance of Serbia
Civic Alliance of Serbia was a social-liberal party in Serbia.Known widely by its three-letter acronym in Serbian, GSS was founded and registered in 1992...

, as in November 2004 he was selected the Chairman of Working Table I of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe was an institution aimed at strengthening peace, democracy, human rights and economy in the countries of South Eastern Europe from 1999-2008. It was replaced by the Regional Co-operation Council in February 2008...

. He still remained a member of the party.

Svilanović was a member of the "International Commission on the Balkans" between 2004 and 2006.

In 2007, he supported the merger of the Civic Alliance of Serbia
Civic Alliance of Serbia
Civic Alliance of Serbia was a social-liberal party in Serbia.Known widely by its three-letter acronym in Serbian, GSS was founded and registered in 1992...

 into the Liberal Democratic Party.

Personal life

Svilanović is married to Dušica Radukić, former teaching assistant at University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...

's Faculty of Agriculture and since 2002 - Mercator's director of marketing in Serbia. When this Slovenian supermarket chain physically returned to Serbia in 2003, after an absence of more than a decade, many saw Foreign Minister Svilanović's warm greeting speech during the ribbon-cutting ceremonies at Mercator's New Belgrade location as inappropriate considering the personal nature of his ties with the company.

They have two children - daughter Danica and son Tihomir.
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