OFFICIALS

Born 30 May 1953, in Belgrade; Graduated from the Belgrade University Law School in 1977.

- Joined the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs in 1978;

- United Nations Disarmament Fellowship (Geneva, Vienna, New York, Boston), 1979;

- Desk Officer, Department for International Organizations, Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs, 1979-1982;

- Attaché (political), SFRY Mission to the United Nations in New York, 1982-1986;

- Advisor/Counselor and later Assistant Head of Department in the Sector for Multilateral Activities; participated in UN GA sessions; member of delegation at International Conferences devoted to international security, disarmament, Non-Aligned Movement activities, peaceful uses of nuclear energy, chemical weapons ban, etc; member of delegation to the Ninth Conference of Non-Aligned Countries in Belgrade in September1989, 1986-1990;

- Minister Counselor, SFRY Mission to the European Community in Brussels, 1990-1992;

- Participated in the work of the Conference on the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague and Brussels, 1991-1992;

- Chief of Cabinet of Mr. Dobrica Cosic, the first President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1992-1993;

- Chargé d’Affaires and later Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Republic of Cyprus, Nicosia, 1993-1999;

- With the rank of Ambassador, appointed Deputy Head of the Bilateral Affairs Sector;

- Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Head of the Bilateral Affairs Sector, 2000-2001;

- Ambassador in the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs later MFA of Serbia and Montenegro 2001-2004;

- Designated to the Group of Ambassadors charged with special and ad hoc affairs in the MFA of Serbia and Montenegro, 2004;

- President of the National Commission for the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, appointed by the Council of Ministers of Serbia and Montenegro, 2005;

- Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to Tokyo, Japan, 2006-2011;

- State Secretary of the MFA of the Republic of Serbia, 2011.

Speaks English and French; Wife Ivona, sons Mirko and Marko.