Jeremić is a native of Belgrade , and was raised in a mixed Christian and Muslim household . His father was the CEO of a prominent state-owned oil company and his mother hailed from a well-known Partisan family , two of whose members were posthumously declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for saving Jews during The Holocaust . In the early 1990s , while he was still a teenager , Jeremić and his parents were forced to leave Yugoslavia after falling out with the country 's communist government . Jeremić graduated from Cambridge and Harvard in 1998 and 2003 , respectively , and was active in several pro-democracy student movements during the 1990s . In the early 2000s , he joined what '' The New York Times '' deemed Serbia 's " most westward-leaning government " as an advisor to President Boris Tadić . In May 2007 , while Tadić was still in office , Jeremić was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs . During his tenure , he spearheaded Serbia 's fervent opposition to Kosovo 's unilateral secession , Serbian authorities arrested a number of war crimes suspects and extradited them to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague , and there was a significant improvement in relations between Serbia and the West . In 2009 , the European Union lifted all visa restrictions on citizens of Serbia , and in 2012 , declared the country a candidate for membership
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