Miodrag Vlahović (politician)

Miodrag Vlahović (Миодраг Влаховић) (born 15 November 1961) is a Montenegrin politician and diplomat.

Education and background

He was born in Đakovica, Kosovo, FPR Yugoslavia and graduated from Veljko Vlahović University's Faculty of Law in Titograd in 1981. He completed his LLM at the University of Belgrade's Law School, specializing in international trade contracts. He furthered his law studies in Paris, Luxembourg, and Leiden, Netherlands.

Career

Since 1990, he has been the owner of MConsult ltd, one of the first private consulting firms in Montenegro.

He was the founder of Citizens Committee for Peace, a Montenegrin peace movement in 1991. He organized of the first peace rally in Montenegro, on July 17, 1991, where he delivered the speech "Heroism Today is Not To Go to War".

He was a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the Republic of Montenegro from 1992 to 1994, and the Liberal Alliance of Montenegro international secretary from 1992 to 1993. He resigned from Parliament in 1994, in protest over unconstitutional changes to the Electoral Law.

He was the first Minister of Foreign Affairs upon Montenegro's independence in June 2006 (serving as a foreign minister from July 2004 to November 2006). On December 6, Vlahović became Montenegro's Ambassador to the US; that day, he presented his credentials to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.[1] From October 30, 2007, Ambassador Vlahović was also accredited to Canada.[2] He was also accredited as Montenegrin ambassador to Iceland, from 2006 to 2010. He is currently (as of October 4, 2017) Montenegrin ambassador to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, in Rome.

He speaks English and Italian, and is married with three daughters.

See also

References
  1. Office of the Spokesman (2006-12-06). "Daily Appointments Schedule for December 6". US Department of State. Retrieved 2006-12-12.
  2. The Njegoskij Fund Network: "H.E. Mr. Miodrag Vlahovic presents his letters of credence to the Governor of Canada" Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine


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