Milan Jelić
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Dr. Milan Jelić (Cyrillic: Милан Јелић) (born 26 March 1956 in Koprivna village near Modriča, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia, died 30 september 2007 in Doboj, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) was a Serb politician in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 9 November 2006 until his death from a heart attack, he was President of Republika Srpska[1].
Born in Koprivna village near Modriča, Jelić completed his secondary education in Doboj and studied at the Faculty of Economics in Subotica, Serbia (under jurisdiction of the University of Novi Sad). He gained a doctorate from the University of Banja Luka.
Jelić spent four years on the local council in Modriča, and at the beginning of 1987 he was appointed manager of OOUR «8.septembar» (today the state owned company «28.juni») in the town. There he spent seven years, until he was appointed general manager of «Rafinerija ulja» Modriča. After the Dayton Agreement was signed he was elected to the National Assembly of Republika Srpska. He also served as President of the Football Association of Republika Srpska, and President of the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On the afternoon of 30 September 2007, while watching a soccer game in Modriča[2], Jelić experienced heart failure, and died shortly afterwards, after an unsuccessful resuscitation attempt in the Doboj hospital.
References
- ^ Bosnian Serb republic leader dies, retrieved from bbc.co.uk, September 30 2007
- ^ President of Bosnian Serb Republic dies, retrieved September 30, 2007