Stjepan Mesić

2nd President of the Republic of Croatia · Croatia · Politicians · Born 1934 · age 91

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He presided over the death of a country. Stjepan Mesić served as the last president of Yugoslavia in 1991, holding the rotating chair as the federation tore itself apart, then went home to lead the independent Croatia that emerged from the wreckage.

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Stjepan Mesić (2004-02-25) (cropped)

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Adjuntant to the Croatian President

Ambassador William Dale Montgomery, Senator Jeff Sessions, and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison meet with Croatian President Stipe Mesic

Boris Tadić & Stjepan Mesić 2007

Dan OSRH Karlovac 2009

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Stjepan Mesić

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If the current division of Bosnia Herzegovina into two entities does not function, it will not function with divisions into three entities.
When asked if the solution for Croatians in Bosnia Herzegovina is to create a third entity., Own words
The Croatian parliament elected me to be the Croatian member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia.
Responding to an earlier quote in which he stated My task has come to an end. There is no more Yugoslavia. ("Moj posao je završen -, Own words

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Awards

Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland2009

Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross2001

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

Order of the Three Stars, 1st Class

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania

Order of the Republic

Grand Order of King Tomislav

Grand Order of Queen Jelena

Grand Order of King Petar Krešimir IV

Grand Order of King Dmitar Zvonimir

Order of Duke Trpimir

Grand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil)

National Maltese Order of Merit

Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Charles

Dostyk Order of grade I

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class

Pushkin Medal

Order of the Crown of the Realm

Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Order of the National Flag

Order of the Sun of Peru

Order of the White Elephant

About this person

Mesić was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament in the 1960s, then vanished from politics for three decades. He returned in 1990, joining the Croatian Democratic Union and becoming prime minister of still-socialist Croatia after the first multi-party elections. He resigned and was appointed to Yugoslavia's federal presidency, serving as vice president and then, in 1991, as president when the state dissolved around him. The role also made him secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement. After independence he was speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 1992 to 1994, left HDZ, formed the Croatian Independent Democrats, and later merged it into the Croatian People's Party. When Franjo Tuđman died in December 1999, Mesić won the presidency in February 2000. He served two five-year terms under a system that was reformed mid-tenure from semi-presidential to parliamentary, stripping the office of its power to appoint and dismiss cabinets. He left in 2010 having topped popularity polls throughout.

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