12th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia

The 12th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian Latin: dvanaest kongres Saveza komunista Jugoslavije, Cyrillic: дванаест конгрес Савеза комуниста Југославије) was held from 26 to 29 June 1982, in the Belgrade Sava Centar. The highest organ of both the government and the party, it was the first Congress of League of Communists of Yugoslavia convened since Josip Broz Tito's death in 1980.[1] It was attended by delegates from all the republics and provinces, as well as a party delegation from the Yugoslav People's Army.

Background

The congress was organized in the backdrop the two years of the morning following the death of Josip Broz Tito.

Number of participants

The congress was attended by 1721 delegates, 323 high-level state officials and 118 different delegations.

The Agenda

• Choice of working bodies
• Verification of the delegation's power of attorney
• Reports on the work of the organs of the SKJ between Eleventh and Twelfth Congress:
• SKJ Central Committee
• Statutory Issues Commission
• SKJ Supervisory Commissions
• Report from Dušan Dragosavac, President of the Central Committee)
• Discussion on the report and reports of the SKJ bodies
• The choosing of congressional commissions (ie their presidencies and presidents)
• Discussion in the commissions on the future tasks of the ICJ and draft documents of the 12th Congress
• Adoption of the resolution of the 12th congress of SKJ and amendment and amendment of the Statute of the ICJ

The Congress

At the Twelfth Congress, a new Central Committee was elected, consisting of 163 members, a 24-member Statutory Committee and a 15-member Supervisory Committee. Mitja Ribičič was elected for the new presidency of the CK SKJ. Members of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia elected at the Twelfth Congress:

Ramiz Abduli, Roman Albrecht, Dušan Alimpić, Şahin Arif, Krste Atanasovski, Milorad Babić, Vladimir Bakarić, Eržebet Balažević, Milutin Baltić, Dimë Belovski, Pál Benak, Jure Bilić, Jakov Blažević, Dušan Bogdanov, Slobodan Bojanic, Lojze Briški, Nevena Bubanja, Marinko Bulatović, Vera Bunteska, Ilija Vakić, Danilo Vasić, Živan Vasiljević, Dušan Veljkovic, Andrej Verbič, Dobrivoje Vidić, Tihomir Vilović, Radovan Vlajković, Azem Vllasi, Tihomir Vlaškalić, Anton Vratuša, Josip Vrhovec, Vuko Vukadinović, Boško Vukov, Miodrag Vuković, Bruno Vuletić, Spiro Galović, Majda Gaspari, Dusan Gligorijevic, Brake Glomazić-Lekovic, Happy Gogh, Peter Gračanin, Alexander Grlickov, Boro Denkov, Veli Deva, Stojan Dimovski, Nijaz Dizdarevic, Stane Dolenc, Zvone Dragan, Dusan Dragosavac, Milojko Drulović, Rato Dugonjić, Marko Đuričin, Predrag Djuric, Vidoje Žarković, Silvia Žugić-Rijavec, Anton Zupančič, Ljubiša Igić, Trpe Jakovlevski, Petar Jakšić, Slavojka Jankovic, Vlado Janžić, Georgije Jovičić, Šaban Kevrić, Nikola Kmezić, Rudi Kolak, Lazar Koliševski, Kemal Korajlić, Dragutin Kosovac, Đorđe Kostić, Sergej Krajger, Anica Kristan, Boško Krunić, Milan Kučan, Ivica Kukoč, Iljaz Kurteshii, Todo Kurtović, Đorđe Lazović, Marko Lolić, Milojko Lucic, Nikola Ljubicic, Nandor Major, Branko Mamula, Zivko Marceta, Slavko Marićević, Andrej Marinc, Dragoslav Markovic, Coffins Markovski, Petar Matić, Rudolf Matosevic, Ahmet Mehović, Munir Mesihović, Fatima Midžić, Niko Mihaljevic, Cvijetin Mijatović, Branko Mikulić, Obren Milacic, Slavka Miladinovic, Veljko Milatovic, Luka Miletic, Smiljka Milojevic, Milos Minic, Lazar Mojsov, Joy Morina, Bogoljub Nedeljkovic, Mirko Ostojic, Day Pasic, Milan Pavic, Ivo Perišin, Dragoljub Petrović, Milka Planinc, France Drink, Dušan Popović, Mihajlo Popovic, Miran Potrč, Hamdi Pozderac, Radenko Puzovic, Ivica Racan, Ilija Radaković, Miljan Radovic, Mićo Rakić, Hisen Ramadani, Nikola Ražnatović, Mitja Ribičič, Marjan Rožič, Alenko Rubeša, Zorka Sekulović, Boro Simić, Jakov Sirotković, Janko Smole, Aleksandar Spirkovski, Vojislav Srzentić, Petar Stambolić, Metodija Stefanovski, Nikola Stojanovic, Stanislav Stojanovic, Stojan Stojcevski, Vlado Strugar, Taip Taipi, Arif Tanović, Branko Trpenovski, Dane Ćuić, Dobroslav Ćulafić, Fadil Quranoli, Igor Uršić, Ivo Fabinc, Marko Filipović, Nikica Franović, Kiro Hadži-Vasilev, Sinan Hasani, Franjo Herljević, Sanije Hiseni, Ivan Hočevar, Fadil Hoxha, Jože Ciuha, Marijan Cvetkovic, Angel Čemerski, Dušan Čkrebić, Milan Dzajkovski, Boško Šiljegović, Kolë Shiroka, Drago Šofranac, Mika Špiljak, Ali Shukria.

Sources

1. The 12th congress of the league of communists of Yugoslavia: The succession process continues, Robert F. Miller, 2008. pp11

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