Ilija Đukić
{{Short description|Serbian diplomat (1930–2002)}}
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|name = Ilija Đukić
|native_name = {{No bold|Илија Ђукић}}
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|office = Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia
|term_start = 30 September 1992
|term_end = 4 March 1993
|predecessor=Vladislav Jovanović
|successor=Vladislav Jovanović
|birth_date = {{Birth date |1930|1|4|df=y}}
|birth_place = Novi Rujac, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
|death_date = {{death date and age|2002|10|22|1930|1|4|df=y}}
|death_place = Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
|nationality = Serbian
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|party = Democratic Party
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Ilija Đukić (January 4, 1930 – October 22, 2002) was a Serbian diplomat who held the post of Foreign Minister for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Career
Đukić attended the Institute for Political Sciences in Beijing, China graduating in 1959.
The Yugoslav foreign service proceeded to give him a succession of posts in the Far East, until he was moved to Eastern Europe and Moscow in the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1990, he again returned to Beijing, now as an Ambassador.{{cite book|author=Foreign Broadcast Information Service|author-link=Foreign Broadcast Information Service|title=Daily Report: People's Republic of China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B7ksAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=National Technical Information Service|page=17}}
From 1992 to 1993, he was serving as the Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia.{{cite news |author=Michael R. Gordon |title=BUSH BACKS A BAN ON COMBAT FLIGHTS IN BOSNIA AIRSPACE |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3DC1439F931A35753C1A964958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
|work=The New York Times |date=2 October 1992 |accessdate=2008-08-16
|quote=Belgrade Government's new Foreign Minister, Ilija Djukic}}
His final post was as the Yugoslav Ambassador to China from 2000 to 2002.
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| before = Vladislav Jovanović
| title = Minister of Foreign Affairs
| years = 1992 – 1993
| after = Vladislav Jovanović
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External links
- [http://www.mfa.gov.rs/History/ministri/IDJukic_e.html Ilija Djukic biography] at Republic of Serbia Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Category:Ambassadors of Yugoslavia to Bulgaria