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BRUSSELS // Serbia's ambassador to Nato jumped to his death off a parking garage platform at Brussels Airport while surrounded by his country's delegation, a diplomat said yesterday.

The Serbian government said in a statement that Branislav Milinkovic, 52, died on Monday night, during two days of meetings of Nato foreign ministers.

Milinkovic was at the airport to meet deputy foreign minister Zoran Vujic and other officials who were due to hold talks with Nato representatives, three diplomats who knew him said. After the delegation arrived, as they walked over to their cars in the diplomatic garage Milinkovic suddenly strolled to a barrier, climbed over it and jumped, one of the diplomats said.

Serbia is not a member of the military alliance, but has a mission in the headquarters complex because it belongs to Nato's Partnership for Peace program, which groups neutral states.

"Nato's secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was deeply saddened by the tragic death of the Serbian ambassador," alliance spokeswoman Carmen Romero said. "Ambassador Branislav Milinkovic was a highly respected representative of his country and will be missed at Nato headquarters."

Milinkovic, a former journalist, had previously served as Serbia's ambassador to the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe in Vienna. He was appointed to the Nato post in Previously, he was active in the opposition to the authoritarian regime of Serbia's former strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

The statement described him as "an excellent diplomat, a leading intellectual and a noble man".

Milinkovic is survived by a wife and six-year-old son.

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The following is a list of notable deaths in December .

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

December

1

• Ahmed Taib El Alj, 84, Moroccan writer.
• Raymond Ausloos, 82, Belgian football player.
• Jovan Belcher, 25, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs), suicide by gunshot.
• José Bénazéraf, 90, French film director and producer.
• Arthur Chaskalson, 81, South African judge, Chief Justice (–), leukaemia.
• Mitchell Cole, 27, English footballer (Southend United, Stevenage Borough), complications of a heart defect.
• John Crigler, 76, American basketball player (University of Kentucky).
• Steve Fox, 54, English footballer, cancer.
• Chuck Gavin, 78, American football player.
• Dee Harvey, 47, American R&B singer.
• Rick Majerus, 64, American college basketball coach (University of Utah, Saint Louis University), heart failure.
• Ezroy Millwood, 70, Jamaican transport businessman.
• Gerard Parker, 76, American Cherokee tribal leader, Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ().
• Rubén Pellanda, 65, Argentine politician.
• Ed Price, 94, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (–).
• Ray Rosso, 96, Italian-born American football coach, natural causes.
• Marcia Russell, 72, New Zealand journalist and news presenter.
• Edouard Saouma, 86, Lebanese civil servant, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (–).
• Bhim Bahadur Tamang, 78, Nepali politician, stroke.
• Phil Taylor, 95, English footballer and coach (Liverpool).^[