Bosnian politician (born 1941)
Tatjana "Tanja" Ljujić-Mijatović (Serbian Cyrillic : Татјана "Тања" Љујић-Мијатовић ; born 11 May 1941) is a Bosnian former politician. By vocation, she is a horticulturist and landscape designer. During the Bosnian War , Ljujić-Mijatović served as the Serb member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
Early life and education
Ljujić-Mijatović was born on 11 May 1941 into a Serb family in Sarajevo .[ 1] Her father was a high-ranking commander in the Yugoslav Partisan resistance movement during World War II . She attended elementary school, high school, and university in Sarajevo.[ 2]
Having graduated from the University of Sarajevo as an agriculture engineer in 1964, Ljujić-Mijatović obtained a master's degree in landscape design at the University of Belgrade in 1982, followed by a doctoral degree in Sarajevo in 1986. She worked as a landscape designer in Vienna from 1969 until 1971 and in Sarajevo from 1971 to 1979, and became a university professor in Mostar and Sarajevo in 1982.[ 1]
Political career
Ljujić-Mijatović became politically active during Bosnia and Herzegovina's socialist era .[ 3] She became a delegate in the People's Assembly in 1991.[ 1]
When the Bosnian War broke out in 1992, Ljujić-Mijatović rejected Serb nationalist politics, stayed in Sarajevo during the siege of the city by the Bosnian Serb army , and supported the preservation of a multiethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina.[ 3] When Nenad Kecmanović resigned his post as Serb member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in July 1992, Ljujić-Mijatović was the Serb delegate with most votes in the 1990 general election who was still residing in the government-controlled territory. Biljana Plavšić and Nikola Koljević had also resigned, and two delegates ahead of Ljujić-Mijatović left the country.[ 4] She duly took her seat in the Presidency, as the only woman among the seven members.[ 2] In 1993, Ljujić-Mijatović gave an interview in Vienna about the life in besieged Sarajevo, which prompted Alois Mock , the Austrian Foreign Minister, to request that she be named Bosnian ambassador to the United Nations . During the Dayton negotiations , she resolutely opposed the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina .[ 2]
Following the war, Ljujić-Mijatović remained a member of the Social Democratic Party .[ 2] From 1998 until 2000, she was the deputy mayor of Sarajevo , and afterward served in the City Council . She is a member of the Serb Civic Council .[ 1]
Personal life
Ljujić-Mijatović is divorced. She has two daughters, including Dunja Mijatović (born in 1964).[ 2]
References
^ a b c d Biografija: Tatjana Ljujić Mijatović, zamjenica predsjedavajućeg Gradskog vijeća Grada Sarajeva (in Serbo-Croatian), City of Sarajevo
^ a b c d e Hunt, Swanee (2004), This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace , Duke University Press, p. 245, ISBN 0822386062
^ a b Čuvalo, Ante (2010), The A to Z of Bosnia and Herzegovina , Scarecrow Press, p. 147, ISBN 978-1461671787
^ Pejanović, Mirko (2004), Through Bosnian Eyes: The Political Memoir of a Bosnian Serb , Publisher, p. 147, ISBN 1557533598