Ministry of Defence (Yugoslavia)

Ministry of Defence

Serbo-Croatian: Ministarstvo odbrane/Министарство одбране Slovene: Ministrstvo za obrambo Macedonian: Министерство за одбрана
Standard of the Minister of Defence (1995–2006)
The Yugoslav Ministry of Defence building (damaged in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia)
Ministry overview
Formed	1 December 1918; 105 years ago (1918-12-01)
Dissolved	4 June 2006; 17 years ago (2006-06-04)
Jurisdiction	Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro
Headquarters	Yugoslav Ministry of Defence building, Belgrade (1965–99) 44°48′20″N 20°27′40″E / 44.80556°N 20.46111°E / 44.80556; 20.46111
Ministers responsible	General Mihailo Rašić, first Minister of Defence Major general (Ret'd) Zoran Stanković, last Minister of Defence
Parent department	Federal Executive Council (1953–92)

Through the history of Yugoslavia, the defence ministry which was responsible for defence of the country was known under several different names. The Ministry of the Army and Navy^[a] was responsible for defence of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1941, the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence^[b] for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1992 and the Ministry of Defence for Serbia and Montenegro (officially named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1992 and 2003) from 1992 to 2006.
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