Vojislav Vukčević ( sr-cyr, Војислав Вукчевић; 1938-2016) was a Serbian politician. He served as the Minister of Diaspora from 2004 to 2007.

Education and career

Vukčević was born in 1938 in

Osijek Osijek () is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja ...

in the

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(today in

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), his father being from

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. He graduated from the

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and received a doctoral degree from the

University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law The University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law ( sr, Правни факултет Универзитета у Новом Саду, Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Novom Sadu), also known as the Novi Sad Law School, is a constituent body of the Universit ...

, in 1974. He was a president of the court in

Beli Manastir Beli Manastir is a town in eastern Croatia. It is the principal town of the Croatian part of Baranja, located in the Osijek-Baranja County. Name The name means "white monastery" in Serbo-Croatian. Originally called Monoštor, the current name w ...

, and worked as a dean and professor at the Faculty of Law, Osijek University, until the breakup of the

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. He was the founder of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) in Baranja and Eastern Slavonia in 1990. Vukčević has been a secretary-general of the

Serbian Renewal Movement The Serbian Renewal Movement ( sr-cyrl, Српски покрет обнове, Srpski pokret obnove, SPO) is a liberal and monarchist political party in Serbia. History The Serbian Renewal Movement party was founded in 1990 through the merge ...

since 1994. He was a deputy in the parliament and minister for relations with

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outside Serbia in the transitional government. He was married with two children.

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1938 births 2016 deaths People from Osijek Serbs of Croatia Serbian Renewal Movement politicians University of Novi Sad alumni University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni {{Serbia-politician-stub