The former president of Serbia, Milan Milutinovic, died today at the age of 81, Ivica Dacic, head of the Socialist Party (SPS), to which the deceased belonged, announced via Instagram.

Dacic is currently Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia.

Milan Milutinovic was the president of Serbia from 1997 to 2002. From 1989 to 1995 he was the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Greece, while from 1995 to 1997 he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia. He was considered a close associate of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic (1941-2006), who had been indicted for war crimes.

Charges were also brought against Milan Milutinovic in 1999 in The Hague by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

After the end of his presidential term, Milutinovic surrendered in 2003 to the ICC and in 2009 was acquitted of all charges against him.