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

Nebojša Kaluđerović, the new Permanent Representative of Montenegro to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Kaluđerović served as the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Montenegro and the National Coordinator for Euro-Atlantic Integration. Between July and December 2012, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Montenegro. Following the renewal of Montenegro’s independence in 2006, Mr. Kaluđerović was appointed as the Permanent Representative of Montenegro to the United Nations in New York, and served in that position between 2006 and 2010. From 2007 until 2010, he was also the Ambassador of Montenegro to Cuba and Costa Rica, on a non-residential basis.

Between 2004 and 2006, Mr. Kaluđerović served as the Permanent Representative of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro to the United Nations in New York. From 2002 until 2004, he was Chief of Staff of the President and then of the Prime Minister of Montenegro. Mr. Kaluđerović also served as the Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Montenegro between 2000 and 2002. From 1995 to 2000, he worked in several enterprises in Russia, in Krasnoyarsk and Moscow.

A career diplomat, Mr. Kaluđerović held various positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia, starting in 1981. Mr. Kaluđerović has a B.A. in International Relations from the Faculty of Law of the Belgrade University, awarded in 1979. He was born in 1955 in Nikšić, Montenegro and is married with one child. In addition to his Montenegrin - his mother tongue - Mr. Kaluđerović speaks fluent English and Russian.


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