Member of the Federal Executive Council Vice-President of Yugoslavia
What position did Koča Popović take from Jul 1966 to Jun 1967?
Koča Popović Konstantin Koča Popović ( ; 14 March 1908 – 20 October 1992 ) was a Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War , 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans . He is on occasion referred to as the man who saved the Yugoslav Partisans , because it was he who anticipated the weakest point in the Axis lines on the Zelengora–Kalinovik axis , and devised the plan for breaking through it during the Battle of Sutjeska , thus saving Tito , his headquarters and the rest of the resistance movement . After the war , he served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Peoples Army , before moving to the position of Foreign Minister and spent the final years of his political career as the Vice President of Yugoslavia . Despite being a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia , he was a supporter of free-market reforms and was also a member of a group of Serbian liberals , a prominent political movement in the 1970s , which also included Marko Nikezić and Latinka Perović . He retired in 1972 , amidst pressure against his group of liberals . He spent the rest of his life in Dubrovnik and was very outspoken against the Yugoslav Wars and the regimes of Franjo Tuđman and Slobodan Milošević . In his youth , he was one of the founding members of the Serbian Surrealist movement . He co-wrote a book with Marko Ristić . Also , Popović was among the founders of FK Partizan Belgrade , the football section of the Yugoslav Sports Association Partizan . Biography . Popović came from a prosperous Belgrade family and spent the First World War in Switzerland . He was also one of the thirteen signatories of the Serbian Surrealist manifesto in 1930 . In 1929 , he moved to Paris to study Law and Philosophy . Here he mixed with the Left Bank world of poets , writers , artists and intellectuals . He became an active Surrealist , active in both the French and Serbian Surrealist groups . In 1931 Nacrt za jednu fenomenologiju iracionalnog ( Outline for a Phenomenology of the Irrational ) was published which he had co-written with Marko Ristić . He then became involved with the then illegal Yugoslav Communist Party . In Paris there was a center run by Comintern and headed by Tito which was used to feed volunteers from the Balkans to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War . Popović was drafted through this center along with a select group of Party members . Popović fought with Spanish Republican forces and not the International Brigades , holding the rank of artillery captain . At the close of the Spanish Civil War Popović escaped through France and made his way back to Yugoslavia . World War II . In 1940 , as a reserve officer in the Royal Yugoslav Army , he was mobilized and told by his Colonel to watch out for subversive activities within the regiment . After the surrender of the Royal Yugoslav Army to the German Army in April 1941 , Popović organized the Kosmaj detachment during the rising in Serbia . On the formation of the First Proletarian Brigade , Popović became its commander , and subsequently commanded the First Proletarian Division . During his time leading the Partisans he encountered William Deakin , leader of the British military mission to Titos headquarters , who wrote of Popović : Post-war . Alongside dozens of others WW2 and Spanish Civil War veterans , Popović was among founding fathers of Partizan Belgrade football club in October 1945 . After the establishment of a communist regime in Yugoslavia in 1945 , he served as the Chief of the Yugoslavian General Staff from 1945-1953 . In this function he also conducted negotiations with the representatives of Western powers associated with the modernisation of the JNA during the conflict with the Soviet Union ( i.e. , Informbiro ) . Consequently , he became the foreign minister of Yugoslavia in 1953 and held this office until 1965 . As the Foreign Minister , he was the head of the Yugoslav delegation to the UN General Assembly sessions on several occasions . From 1965 until 1972 he acted as a Member of the Federal Executive Council and the Vice-President of Yugoslavia from 1966 until 1967 . In 1985 he and Peko Dapčević were considered for promotion in rank General of the Army , but they both rejected the proposition . He died in 1992 at the age of 84 .