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

Ljubisa Perovic, the new Permanent Representative of 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. Perovic had been serving as the head of Montenegro’s Office for Sustainable Development from 2007 to 2010. In 2007 he served as Deputy Minister of Defense; in 2006 as Consul General in Shanghai; and from 2004 to 2006 as Deputy Minister-Ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Mr. Perovic also served as head of the Montenegrin Mission in Rome from 2000 to 2004 and as Counsel General for Southern Italy in Bari from 1994 to 1999.

A career diplomat, Mr. Perovic joined the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Policy in 1978, and he has served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Montenegro from 1991 to 1994 and he also held posts in embassies in Denmark, from 1987 to 1991, and Pakistan, from 1979 to 1983. As a member of the Montenegrin delegation, Mr. Perovic participated in the first ecological summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. He is also one of the founders and board members of the Greens of Montenegro.

Mr. Perovic graduated from the Faculty of Economy in Titograd in 1976, where he was active in international student and youth cooperation and served as a secretary of the International Youth Commission of Montenegro. He was born in Titograd on 30 April 1951 and is married with three children.



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