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Zoran Trifunovic
dr Igor Georgijev
Đurđe Ninkovic
Djordje Đurisic
Mirko Petrovic
Vladan Zivulovic
Vladimir M. Gajic
Milorad Savicevic
prof.dr.Kosta Cavoski
Cedomir Antic
Vladan Vukosavljevic
Dragoslav Micic
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 MILORAD
SAVICEVIC
He comes from a middle class urban family having university education for
generations. Born in November 1935 in Belgrade where he completed education in
schools in Belgrade and graduated at the Belgrade University Law School in 1960.
He lives in Belgrade and Switzerland. He is married and has two children. He is
fluent in several foreign languages (English, Italian, French, Russian).
He started professional activities in late fifties. Between 1962 – 1970 ha has
worked in Federal economic ministries on issues regarding economic and financial
relations with foreign countries. Between 1973 and 1990 he was managing
director, i.e. Chairman of board of the famous foreign trade Holding Company “Generalexport”.
During that period this enterprise, extremely important for the Serbian and
Yugoslav economy at the time, has grown into a real giant billion USD annual
revenues.
He wrote many expert texts in the field of economic relations with foreign
countries. Having left “Generalexport” he went to work abroad in the period from
1990-2000 period.
He participated in organizing democratic opposition founding the Reformist party
of Serbia, forming of DEPOS (The Democratic Movement of Serbia); he was a member
of Federal Parliament between 1992-1996. In the middle of 1998 he joined the
founders of DHSS (Christian Democratic Party) and SZP (League of Changes). He is
the Vice-president of DHSS.
After the victory of the democratic forces on the federal and local elections in
September 2000, he became a member of the Chamber of Citizens in the Federal
Parliament where he was also in charge of the President of Committees for
foreign economic relations, and councilman in the Belgrade City Assembly.
In October 2000, he was elected the President of the Genex enterprise, and at
the same time he became a President of the “Zastava group”.
In 2003 he was elected again to the Parliament of the State Union of Serbia and
Montenegro.
 MIRKO
PETROVIC
Date of birth: 3 March 1965
Place of birth: Belgrade
Marital status: married, father of a child
Nationality: Serbian
Education
- MBA
in international relationships and international public law – University of
Belgrade, Law School (1988)
- Graduated
lawyer - University of Belgrade, Law School (1986), average grade 9.93
Professional experience
Fourteen years of working in the
following positions:
Feb 2004
Feb 2003 – Feb 2004
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Council of Ministers of Serbia
and Montenegro Legal Service
-
General Manager of the Service
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coordinating activities related
to providing the methodological standard of the legal regulations
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evaluating concordance of the
legal acts of Serbia and Montenegro with the Constitutional Charter
Dec 2000 – Jan 2003
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Federal Government of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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Federal Secretariat for
Legislation
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Federal Secretary for
Legislation
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coordinating and organizing
activities related to providing the methodological standard of the legal
regulations
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evaluating concordance of the
legal acts of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with the Constitution of FRY
Feb 1990 – Nov 2000
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Institute for Balkanaology of
the Serbian Academy of Science and Art
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Project “History of the Balkan
states, peoples and cultures”
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Research assistant in the
subproject “Historical and legal relations of Serbia and Yugoslavia and other
Balkan countries in the 20th century”
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Research in the field of
constituting of the Kingdom of SHS and fundamental problems in functioning of
the state
Publications
- Monographies
in the area of constitutional and legal regulations
- Author
of 15 works in the area of international relationships and international
public law
Other activities
- Member
of the Initiative Board of the Democratic Party (DS) (the first opposition party
after 45 years), in 1989
- Member
of the Serbian Parliament from the Democratic Party list, member of the Central
Board of DS and the member of the Executive Board of DS from 1992 to 1996
- One
of the founders of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), with the duty of the
Chairman of the Executive Board from 1992 to 1996. Deputy Chairman of DSS from
1996 to 1998
- Member
of the Serbian Parliament from the Democratic Party of Serbia list, from 1992 to
1997
- Expert
consultant on the current legal regulations related to the Law on companies and
the Law on privatization, at the “International CG” company, since 2001
- Member
of the Board of the “International CG” company, since April 2003
- Member
of the Board of the “Official Gazette” since April 2001. Working on the new
business strategy and company’s policy, establishing cooperation with major
foreign partners. Expanding the company’s scope of activities. Improving and
modernization of the company’s sales network.
 VLADIMIR
M. GAJIC
igajic@eunet.yu
Vladimir M. Gajic from Belgrade,
an attorney at law. Born on 24 March 1965 in Marseilles, France. Married, father
of four.
Graduated at the University of
Belgrade Law School in 1989. Since 1992 – attorney at law with the office in
Belgrade. Co-owner of the consulting agency Heofund Ltd Belgrade, which
represents legal interests of foreign and local investors into construction
projects in Belgrade.
In his professional career, among
other, he used to be a member of the legal team that defended Mr. Vuk Draskovic
in the trial in the District Court in Belgrade in 1993, as well as a member of
the legal team that defended Mr. Zoran Djindjic in the trial (the so called
“wheat affair”)in the District Court in Belgrade in 1996.
Political engagement
1992 to 1994 - General Secretary
of the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO)
1992 to 1995 – Member of the
Federal Parliament of FR Yugoslavia on the list of DEPOS coalition
1995 to 1996 – Member of the
Central Committee of the Democratic Party (DS). In 1996 he left the DS and
stooped active involvement in the politics.
Since May 2003 he is a member of
the Legal Council of HRH Crown Prince Alexander II Karadjordjevic.
 CEDOMIR
ANTIC
Born on 9 October 1974. He served
the Yugoslav Army in Vranje and Gnjilane 1993-1994. Graduated as the first in
the generation at the Division of History, University of Belgrade School of
Philosophy in 1999. Got his MA in contemporary history at the University of
Bristol Division of History Studies in 2002. The second B.Sc. thesis he defended
at the University of Belgrade School of Philosophy Cathedra for New Age History
in 2003. Cedomir Antic studies history of international relationships of Great
Britain and Serbia in the 19th and 20th century. He works
at the Balkan Institute of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (SANU).
Cedomir Antic was the chairman of
the Main Board of the Students’ Protest of 1996/1997. From April 1996 to
February 1998 Antic was the General Secretary of the Students’ Political Club
(SPK), the first students’ party in Serbian history. Under Cedomir Antic’s
presidency, SPK led the anti-elections campaign from June to December 1997,
which included all political parties that later, in 2000, formed the first
democratic government. In February 1998 SPK united with the Democratic Party and
Cedomir Antic took position of the party’s spokesman for a year. He resigned
from the position at the beginning of 1999, but remained a member. After the
establishment of democracy in Serbia, Antic initiated the campaign for
reestablishment of state sovereignty and establishment of national program of
Serbia. In December 2002 he published his draft of the national program titled The Draft – Independent Serbia in the European Union which was accepted
by G17 Plus party as its own state and national program with the title State
Program for European Serbia.
 DJORDJE DJURISIC
Born on 31 October 1930 in Bern,
Switzerland. Finished elementary and high school in Belgrade. In 1954 graduated
at the University of Belgrade Law School as the first student of the generation.
From 1956 to 1959 part time assistant teacher at the Institute for Comparative
Law in Belgrade. Since 1959 attorney at law and translator for English.
Several times elected the member
and the secretary of the Board of the Bar of Serbia, and the vice chairman of
the International Lawyers Union for Yugoslavia from 1983 to 1987 and again the
same position from 2001 to 2005; associate member of the US Bar, International
Law and Practice Section; chairman of the British-Yugoslav Barristers
Association; general secretary of the Yugoslav Association for International
Affairs; member of the Executive Board of the International Law Association of
Serbia and Montenegro; member of the European Union Law Association in Belgrade;
member of the International Affairs Forum, Belgrade.
Married, wife Jasna and daughter
Jovana.
 DJURDJE
NINKOVIC
Born in 1942 in Belgrade. After
completion of the Classical high school he graduated at the University of
Belgrade Law School in 1964. He continued post graduate studies of International
Law in London.
He is a member of the Bar in
Belgrade and an associate member of the Bar in London.
He is mostly into international
private law, international trade law, arbitrage and air traffic law.
He is a member of the
British-Yugoslav Barristers Association in London.
For his services to the legal
system of Sweden, he was decorated with the Order of the Polar Star, first
degree, by the King of Sweden in 1988.
He is one of the founders of the
Democratic Party and the signatory of the Letter of Intentions. He is also among
the founders of the Democratic Party of Serbia in 1992.
From February to October 2001 he
was the Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Serbia. From that position
he established a team that initiated writing the draft of the Law on
rehabilitation, the Law on courts, the Law on NGOs and the Law on political
parties.
He has published articles in
England, in the Current European Law, Impact, The South Slav
Journal, The Times and BSSSLA Newsletter. In Yugoslavia he published articles in
the magazines Danas Pravo, Politika, NIN and Branic.
He participated as
speaker at the seminars in Cambridge, London, Harvard, University of Essex and
Belgrade. He presented his works at the conferences at the Royal Institute for
International Affairs, Chatham House, Wilton Park and the British Parliament.
He practices law in Belgrade and
London. He is married to Mirjana and has two sons, Marko and Peter.
 KOSTA
CAVOSKI
Kosta Cavoski was born on 26
October 1941 in Banatsko Novo Selo, district of Pancevo. His father was Sava,
local physician and his mother Vera, born Ilic. He started the four year
elementary school in Novi Sad, and finished it in Kovin, where he took up lower
secondary school which he completed in Vrsac. He also finished high school in
Vrsac in 1960.
He enrolled the University of
Belgrade Law School in 1960 and graduated on 29 June 1964 with average grade
9.85. He became Bachelor of Science in 1969 with the thesis “The role of the US
Supreme Court in the development of federal system”. In 1973 he took his PhD
thesis “The idea of freedom and democracy” which was later published under its
real title “The possibilities of freedom in democracy”.
In his youth as a high school
student he accepted as true that communism was a promising future, so in 1959 he
became a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and took part in
voluntary work projects five times (1958-1962), twice as a brigade commander
(1959 and 1960). Each time he was honored as the best worker. During his studies
in Belgrade he was a party and students’ organization official and after
graduation he was a professional official of the Students’ Association of
Yugoslavia and the Youth Association of Yugoslavia for three years. For nearly
two years (1965-1967) he was a vice chairman of the Students’ Association of
Yugoslavia in charge of international relationships and in that capacity took
part in numerous international gatherings including the congresses of the
International Students’ Conference in Nairobi 1966 and of the International
Students’ Union in Ulan Bator 1967. At the beginning of 1967 he resigned his
position and after the big students’ demonstrations in June 1968 he publicly
renounced communism.
He began his academic career in
1970 as an assistant teacher at the Law School in Belgrade. This career was
abruptly discontinued when at the beginning of 1973 he was first sentenced of
alleged false information propaganda (the pretext for the sentence was an
article published in “Gledista” magazine, issue 5-6/1972 titled “Which values
are protected by our laws?”) to five months of prison, two years on parole, and
then on 31 December 1975 expelled from the Law School on the grounds of the so
called moral and political inadequacy, which was established by a report signed
by professors Dr. Jovan Djordjevic, Dr. Radomir Lukic and Dr. Pavle
Dimitrijevic. He was without any job for two years and then was given position
at the Institute for Comparative Law on 1 April 1978, where he stayed for ten
years. At the end of 1988 he takes position at the Institute for Philosophy and
Social Theory. As of 1 January 1990 after 15 years of absence, he started
working again at the University of Belgrade Law School as a full time teacher.
Starting from 1968 he became a
fierce critic of the regime, and then the so called dissident who was persecuted
for years and two times arrested and detained for short. While Tito was still
alive, from 1976 to 1979 he wrote a book titled “Tito – technology of power”.
After the trial to the so called “Belgrade six” in 1984 he became a member of
the “Board for protection of thought and expression” and in 1989 he was among
the founders of the Democratic Party.
Beside teaching at the Law School
in Belgrade he also teaches at the Law School at the University of Srpsko
Sarajevo, initially in Ilidza and then in Pale, since it was established at the
end of 1994. At the beginning of 1996 the President of Republika Srpska
appointed him a senator. He is the Chairman of the International Board for the
truth about Radovan Karadzic since its establishment. Since 30 October 2003 he
is a correspondent member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 VLADAN
ZIVULOVIC
Born 27th July 1956 in Belgrade, Serbia
BA Law – Faculty of Law, Belgrade University, January 1981
He became a member of the Chamber of Law (passed the exam at the Supreme
Court of Serbia) in 1984.
He has been working as an attorney since 1982. Specialized training in the
legal regulations of foreign investments.
Legal Advisor to His Royal Highness Prince Aleksander II
Director of the Belgrade Institute for Geopolitical Studies since 1996.
During this period the Institute issued the following titles, as well as
organizing numerous round tables, press conferences etc.
The Geopolitical Surroundings of Serbs (1997)
Kosovo and Metohija – challenges and answers (1997)
Ignacio Ramonet: The Geopolitics of Chaos (1998)
‘Great Albania’ – the Concept and Possible Consequences (1998)
Basic Doctrine of the Defense of Republika Srpska (1999)
Geopolitical Crossroads (2000)
The Peace Partnership and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2001)
Senior Operator of the non government organization Counsel for Democratic
Changes in Serbia. Latest project – ‘Victims of the Communist Regime since 1944
until 1956 in Serbia’
Since its founding in 2001, Director of the Atlantic Council of Serbia and
Montenegro, a non government agency which stands for euro-atlantic integrations
and values. The Atlantic Council is a member of ATA, who closely collaborates
with NATO.
In August 2004 the Government of Serbia and Montenegro appointed him as
Director of the Fund for the Reform of the Defense System, until 31st May 2006.
The fund dealt with the turnover of real estate properties of the army of Serbia
and Montenegro as well as providing funds for the building of housing, acquiring
of equipment and social programs. From 2006 until August 2007 – Counselor for
the legal and economic matters of the rector and owner of the Megatrend
University, the largest private University in Serbia.
Since August 2006 and currently – Head of Equest, Investment Fund which has
invested around 1 billion euros so far in various infrastructure projects in
Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro.
He has been appointed by His Royal Highness the Prince Aleksandar II
Karađorđević as a member of the Executive Board of the Endowment of King Petar I
Karađorđević on Oplenac.
He is a member of the Crown Cabinet.
 VLADAN
VUKOSAVLJEVIC
Born in
Belgrade 2nd April 1962
He
graduated at the Law School of Belgrade University. Had several study visits
in France and Germany. Attended post graduate course at the University of
Law on a theme International contracts.
He
started professional experience in Belgrade firm for external trade “Univerzal”.
He was
Director and owner of Enterprise for real-estate trade and rendering of
legal services.
From 2002
he is Director and Co-owner of the “Logos Public Relations” Enterprise.
Published
various articles in “Nin”, “Knjizevna rec” and “Pravnik”
Foreign
languages: English and French
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