Pavle Bulatović (; 13 December 1948 – 7 February 2000) was a Yugoslav Montenegrin politician. Bulatović served as Interior Minister of Montenegro from 1990 to 1992, then as Federal Minister of Interior of FR Yugoslavia and as

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of the

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from 1993 until his assassination in 2000. Bulatović represented the

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which was then allied in government with the

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, led by

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Death

Bulatović was shot dead in

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on the evening of 7 February 2000. The shooting took place at the restaurant of

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in the Belgrade suburb of

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. He later died at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. Immediately after the killing, the Yugoslavian government went into an emergency session and declared that Bulatovic had been the victim of terrorism. , his assassination remains unsolved.

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Death

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