commands birth_place allegiance birth_date rank article_title name
chief of general staff -lrb- 1996 -- 1998 -rrb- maletići near netretić , fpr yugoslavia croatian army 3 april 1953 general -lrb- '' general zbora '' -rrb- pavao miljavac
 pavao miljavac
pavao miljavac

pavao miljavac -lrb- born 3 april 1953 -rrb- is a retired croatian army general .
he served as chief of general staff between 1996 and 1998 , and between october 1998 and january 2000 he served as croatia 's minister of defence in the cabinet of zlatko mateša , following andrija hebrang 's resignation .
he ran in the january 2000 general election on the centre-right croatian democratic union -lrb- hdz -rrb- ticket , and won a seat in the croatian parliament .
however , he left the party three months later and joined the newly established splinter party democratic centre in april 2000 , along with other prominent hdz members such as vesna Škare-ožbolt and mate granić .
miljavac left politics after 2003 .
he owns a wood processing facility in novigrad na dobri .
