BIHAĆ, MAY 28 (ONASA) – On this day in 1995, Irfan Ljubijankić, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, died.
He died in the early morning hours of May 28, 1995, in the last months of the war in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the area of the Slunj hills, near the village of Kremen, which is located on the road between Slunj and Cetingrad in Croatia.
The helicopter that was traveling from the improvised military airport Ćoralići near Cazin towards Zagreb was shot down with a rocket by members of the so-called Serbian Army of Krajina (SVK). In addition to dr. Ljubijankić, in the aircraft were Izet Mehmedagić, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mensur Šabulić, advisor at the Embassy of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Zagreb, Major Fadil Pekić, a member of the MUP of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a personal companion of Minister Ljubijankić, pilot N. Dudayev and two crew members Mirsad Dupanović and Mihail Maksumenko Grigorijevic.
A day earlier, Minister Ljubijankić and his associates attended the Constituent Session of the Una-Sana Canton, the first federal canton in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ljubijankić was born on November 26, 1952 in Bihać. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Belgrade in 1977.
For a time (16 months) he worked in Libya as a general practitioner.
From 1980 to 1984, he specialized in otorhinolaryngology and cervicofacial surgery.
At the same time, he completed postgraduate studies in ENT and MFK in Zagreb, after which he spent another year in Libya.
In 1990, Ljubijankić was one of the founders of the Democratic Action Party, and on March 27, 1994, he was elected president of the SDA Main Board. (end)