Pavle Bulatović (
Serbian Cyrillic
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: Павле Булатовић; 13 December 1948 – 7 February 2000) was a Yugoslav politician.
Bulatović served as Interior Minister of Montenegro from 1990 to 1992, then as Federal Minister of Interior of FR Yugoslavia and as
Minister of Defence
A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in som ...
of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
from 1993 until his assassination in 2000.
Death
He was shot dead in
Belgrade on the evening of 7 February 2000. The shooting took place at the restaurant of
FK Rad in the Belgrade suburb of
Banjica
Banjica ( sr, Бањица, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is divided between the Belgrade's municipalities of Savski Venac (western half) and Voždovac (eastern half).
Location
Banjica is located 5-6 kilo ...
.
Bulatović later died at the
Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. Bulatović represented the
Socialist People's Party of Montenegro
The Socialist People's Party of Montenegro ( sr, Социјалистичка народна партија Црне Горе, Socijalistička narodna partija Crne Gore, SNP) is a political party in Montenegro. It is a social-democratic and s ...
which was then allied in government with the
Socialist Party of Serbia
The Socialist Party of Serbia ( sr, Социјалистичка партија Србије, Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) is a political party in Serbia. It is led by Ivica Dačić.
It was founded in 1990 as the direct successor to ...
, led by
Slobodan Milošević.
References
External links
BBC profile
1948 births
2000 deaths
People from Kolašin
Rovčani
Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro politicians
Socialist People's Party of Montenegro politicians
Montenegrin economists
University of Montenegro Faculty of Economics alumni
Assassinated Montenegrin politicians
Deaths by firearm in Serbia
People murdered in Serbia
Assassinations in Serbia
Unsolved murders in Serbia
2000 murders in Serbia
Burials in Montenegro
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