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Milenko R. Vesnic (or Milenko R. Vesnitch ), born the to Dunišiće and died the in the 16 It is district of Paris [ first ] , is a Serbian diplomat and politician, Minister of Serbia in France on several occasions between 1904 and 1921, the diplomatic representative of Serbia at the Paris Peace Conference in Versailles in June 1919 and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1920-1921).
Milenko R. Vesnić studied law at the Grande École de Belgrade, then at the University of Munich (since 1883). THE Vesnić supported his doctoral thesis entitled “The Vendetta among South Slavs”, published the following year in Stuttgart. Thereafter he perfected in Paris (1888-1889) and in London (1889-1890). He entered the diplomatic service of Serbia in 1891, as secretary of the Serbia Legation in Constantinople. From 1893, he was a professor of international law at the big school and the same year he became a deputy for the National Assembly as a member of the Radical Party.
In the government of Sava Grujić (1893-1894), he was Minister of Public Education and Cult. He ended his career as a law professor in 1899, after an insult to King Milan I Obrenović and was sentenced to two years in prison. In 1901 he resumed his diplomatic service as Minister of Serbia in Rome. In 1904, Vesnić was appointed minister in Paris. In the radical cabinet of Nikola Pašić in 1906 he was Minister of Justice. He returns to Paris again as Minister of Serbia. After the Vesnić Balkan wars was a member of the Serbian delegation at the Conference of Ambassadors in London from 1912 to 1913.
During the Great War, Milenko R. Vesnić organized several conferences in favor of Serbian efforts, “heroic ally of France”, as said at the time. He published in Paris a collection of his speeches and his articles in the French press, entitled “Serbia through the Great War” (Bossard, Paris 1921).
Vesnić was elected corresponding member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Paris.
He was married to an American (white Ulman) of the family of President Wilson’s wife. Mr. Vesnitch went to Washington before the peace conference to meet President Wilson and explain the Serbian position to him with regard to the dislocation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Vesnić had also represented Serbia at the League of Nations at the Paris Conference in .
Milenko R. Vesnić was twice (1920 and 1920/1921) the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, and therefore founder of Yugoslavia. During his second government he was at the same time Minister of Foreign Affairs. He signed the Rapallo Treaty with Italy in 1920.
Author of several studies on criminal law and international law, especially in the position of Bosnia and Herzegovina in international law, Vesnić also translated from French and German the manuals of international law (1898) and criminal law (1902), as well as the work of B. Cunibert, the doctor of Prince Miloš Obrenović in the Serbian language (1901).
- Milenko R. Wesnitsch, The blood revenge at the Südslaven: a contribution to the history of criminal law , Stuttgart: Happrosy crush, 1889 (Thènes (Thiese Doctorate a LETS)
- Milenko R. Vesnitch, Serbia through the Great War , Bossard, Paris 1921
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