NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Slobodan Vukčević, the new Permanent Representative of Serbia and Montenegro to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Vukčević had been serving, since 2004, as Secretary-General of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2003, he was a defence counsel appointed by the court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Mr. Vukčević began his career as a lawyer in Belgrade, where he practised from 1999 to 2003. In 1996, Mr. Vukčević conducted research at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in Vienna. He has a master’s degree in international economic law from the University of Central Europe in Budapest (1997), and a law degree from the University of Belgrade (1994).

Mr. Vukčević was born on 22 August 1970 in Osijek, Croatia. He is married with one child.

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