Marko Nikezić | |
Native Name: | Марко Никезић |
Office: | Federal Secretary of Foreign Affairs |
Term Start: | 23 April 1965 |
Term End: | 25 December 1968 |
President: | Josip Broz Tito |
Predecessor: | Koča Popović |
Successor: | Mišo Pavićević (acting) |
Office1: | President of the Presidency of the League of Communists of Serbia |
1Blankname1: | Secretary |
1Namedata1: | Latinka Perović |
Term Start1: | 23 November 1968 |
Term End1: | 25 October 1972 |
Predecessor1: | Petar Stambolić |
Successor1: | Tihomir Vlaškalić |
Birth Name: | Marko Nikezić |
Birth Date: | 13 June 1921 |
Birth Place: | Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
Death Place: | Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia |
Party: | League of Communists of Yugoslavia |
Spouse: | Zora Bogićević Emilija Jakšić (19??-1949; her death) |
Children: | 2 |
Marko Nikezić (Serbian: Марко Никезић; 13 June 1921 – 6 January 1991) was a Serbian politician. He was a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia and Chairman of the League of Communists of Serbia. He was dismissed in 1972 under the charge of being "anarcho-liberal".
Nikezić was born in Belgrade to a Serb father, Petar, and a French mother, Suzanne. He studied at the Technical Faculty at the University of Belgrade. He was a member of the Yugoslav Partisan army from 1941, during World War II.
After the war, he served as Yugoslav ambassador to Egypt, Czechoslovakia and the United States of America. From 1965-68, he was a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia. In 1968, he became the Chairman of the League of Communists of Serbia. In 1972, he was dismissed from the office under the charge of being too "liberal" and "anarcho-liberal", alongside Latinka Perović and other Serbian high-officials. This event is known in Serbian history as the 'Purge of liberals'. He died in Belgrade in 1991.[1]