Vojislav Vukčević was Serbia

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n Minister of the Diaspora

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Vukčević was born in 1938 in Osijek

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 in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

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 (today in Croatia

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), his father being from Montenegro

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. He graduated from the University of Belgrade

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's Law School

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 and has received a doctoral degree from the University of Novi Sad

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's Faculty of Law, in 1974. He was a president of the court in Beli Manastir

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, and worked as a dean and professor at the Faculty of Law, Osijek University, until the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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Vukčević has been a secretary-general of the Serbian Renewal Movement

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 since 1994. He was a deputy in the parliament and minister for relations with Serbs

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outside Serbia in the transitional government. He is married and has two children.