The Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Serbia ( sr, Антифашистичка скупштина народног ослобођења Србије / ''Antifašistička skupština narodnog oslobođenja Srbije''; acr. АСНОС / ASNOS) was formed in November 1944, as the governing body of the

Yugoslav National-Liberation Movement The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод� ...

in the newly liberated

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

. President of ASNOS was

Siniša Stanković Siniša Stanković ( sr, Синиша Станковић; ; 26 March 1892 – 24 February 1974) was a Yugoslav and Serbian scientist and politician. As a prominent biologist, he became member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. As a poli ...

. In the autumn of 1944, Serbia was liberated by partisan forces and the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

. As soon as

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

was liberated on 20 October, creation of new administration was initiated. In early November 1944, the ''Great Anti-Fascist People's Liberation Assembly of Serbia'' ( sr, Велика антифашистичка народно-ослободилачка скупштина Србије) in Belgrade. It consisted of more than eight hundred delegates, elected throughout liberated regions of Serbia. In order to form permanent representative body, delegates elected 250 representatives, thus constituting the ''Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Serbia''. In the same time, they affirmed the policy of reconstituting Yugoslavia as a

federation A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governin ...

, with Serbia as one of its federal units. Thus was initiated the process that led to the creation of the ''Federated State of Serbia'' ( sr, Федерална Држава Србија), as a

federated state A federated state (which may also be referred to as a state, a province, a region, a canton, a land, a governorate, an oblast, an emirate or a country) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation. Such states d ...

within new

Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, also known as Democratic Federative Yugoslavia (DF Yugoslavia or DFY), was a provisional state established during World War II on 29 November 1943 through the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Nation ...

Presidium

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