Goran Svilanovic

Goran Svilanović (born 22 October, 1963 in Gnjilane) is a Serbian politician, the Chairman of Working Table I of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, and a member of International Commission on the Balkans. As of 2005 he lives in Belgrade.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade with an LL.B. and LL.M. He studied at the Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg and received the Sasakawa Foundation fellowship in 1990. He also studied at the Faculty of Law in Saarbrücken and at the European Peace University in Austria. Svilanovic was dismissed from the University of Belgrade when he publicly opposed the contraversial University law in 1998, where he worked as a teaching assistant. He also worked for several human rights and anti war organizations in Serbia.

He became the vice-president of the Civic Alliance of Serbia (Građanski savez Srbije) in 1998, and became the party's president in 1999. The party never enjoyed big popular support, but it was a member of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), and as such has participated in the government since 2000. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro from 2000 until 2004.

In Serbian parliamentary elections in December 2003, the Civic Alliance of Serbia nominated its members on the Democratic Party's ballot. They won 12.6% of the votes, and Svilanovic is a member of parliament since January 2004. In December 2004, Svilanovic left the Civic Alliance of Serbia along with several other influental members, due to a split in two wings, one promoting fully independent party, and the other, including Svilanovic, proposing merger with the Democratic Party.

In November 2004 Svilanovic was selected the Chairman of Working Table I of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.

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