Nebojša Kaluđerović (born 1955 in

Nikšić Nikšić (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Никшић, ), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 32,046 (2023 census) located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot of Trebjesa ...

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) is a Montenegrin politician and diplomat, who served as

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briefly in 2012. He served as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the

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for Montenegro between 11 August 2006 and 1 April 2010 and also as ambassador-at-large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro.

Biography

He graduated from the

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. Besides his native Montenegrin, he speaks English and

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fluently. Before 1991, he served as a Permanent Ambassasor to the United Nations for the

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, focusing on international security and disarmament issues. From 1981 to 1992, Kaluđerović was a member of the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs in Yugoslavia. He was the Special Advisor for multilateral affairs to the Federal Foreign Minister of the

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between 1991 and 1992. Between 1994 and 2000, the new envoy worked in the trade and engineering sector in the

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. He was Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 until 2001. From 2002 to 2003, he was Chief of Cabinet to the

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. From 2003 to 2004, Kaluđerović served as Chief of Cabinet to the

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. From 2004 until 2006, Kaluđerović was the Permanent Representative of

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to the United Nations. In 2006, following the Montenegrin independence referendum, he served as the Special Envoy of the

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to the United Nations. On March 31, 2007, for being the first Ambassador of the newly independent Montenegro to the United Nations, Prince Nicholas of Montenegro invested him with the insignia of Grand Cross in the Order of Danilo I.Njegoskij, org :: "H.R.H. Prince Nicolas decorates Ambassador Kaluđerović with the Order of Danilo I"
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References

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