Vuk Jeremić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Serbian politician
Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1975
Place of Birth: Belgrade, Belgrade District
Profession: politician, diplomat
Nationality: Serbia
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
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About Vuk Jeremić
- Vuk Jeremic (Serbian Cyrillic: ??? ???????, Serbian pronunciation: [?û?k jeremit?]; born 3 July 1975) is a Serbian diplomat who served as Serbia's Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2007 and 2012, and President of the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly between September 2012 and September 2013. Jeremic is a native of Belgrade, and was raised in a mixed Christian and Muslim household.
- His father was the CEO of a prominent state-owned oil company and his mother hailed from a well-known Partisan family, two of whose members were posthumously declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for saving Jews during The Holocaust.
- In the early 1990s, while he was still a teenager, Jeremic and his parents were forced to leave Yugoslavia after falling out with the country's communist government.
- Jeremic graduated from Cambridge and Harvard in 1998 and 2003, respectively, and was active in several pro-democracy student movements during the 1990s.
- In the early 2000s, he joined what The New York Times deemed Serbia's "most westward-leaning government" as an advisor to President Boris Tadic.
- In May 2007, while Tadic was still in office, Jeremic was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- During his tenure, he spearheaded Serbia's fervent opposition to Kosovo's unilateral secession, Serbian authorities arrested a number of war crimes suspects and extradited them to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, and there was a significant improvement in relations between Serbia and the West.
- In 2009, the European Union lifted all visa restrictions on citizens of Serbia, and in 2012, declared the country a candidate for membership. Jeremic remains the youngest person ever to have served as President of the United Nations General Assembly, having been elected in 2012.
- His tenure saw Palestine granted non-member observer status in the General Assembly, the General Assembly's adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which aimed to regulate international conventional weapons commerce, and the proclamation of 6 April as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.
- Jeremic describes himself as a "fervent, pro-European politician".
- He is the current president of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) and editor-in-chief of Horizons, an English-language global public policy magazine.
- Jeremic was a candidate in the race to succeed Ban Ki-moon as United Nations Secretary-General in 2016, finishing second overall, behind eventual winner António Guterres.
- He unsuccessfully ran in the 2017 Serbian presidential election as an independent candidate.
- In October 2017, he founded the center-right People's Party.
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