Aleksandar Ilić (1945 – 2018) was a professor of literature at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

. He was appointed the Ambassador of

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in the

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between 2001 and 2005.

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selected Aleksandar Ilic in 1979 to represent Yugoslavia. In December 1989 he became an active member of

the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party The Democratic Party ( sr, Демократска странка, Demokratska stranka; , DS) is a social-democratic and social-liberal political party in Serbia. The party was officially founded on 3 February 1990 by a group of Serbian intel ...

. The

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was the first opposition, non-communist party in Serbia. In 1990 he was the first editor of the newspaper ''Demokratija'', the first opposition newspaper in

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. Professor Ilić died on 24 February 2018 in Belgrade.

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