Montenegro Ambassador to Discuss Country's Second Year of Independence April 10
April 1, 2008
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
His Excellency Miodrag Vlahovic, ambassador of Montenegro to the United States, will discuss his country’s near- and long-term goals as a newly independent nation on Thursday, April 10, in a special discussion presented by the University of Baltimore School of Law's Center for International and Comparative Law and the law firm of Hodes, Pessin & Katz, PA. “An Independent Montenegro Year Two: Moving toward NATO and the EU” is free and open to the public, and will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the Venable Baetjer Howard Moot Court Room in the John and Frances Angelos Law Center, 1415 Maryland Ave.
In a May 2006 referendum, the people of Montenegro opted to leave the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. This was confirmed with a declaration of independence by the Montenegrin parliament on June 3, 2006. It simultaneously requested international recognition and outlined foreign policy goals. As enumerated in the parliamentary declaration on that date, Montenegro's near-term primary foreign policy objectives are integration into the European Union and in NATO.
Vlahovic became ambassador of Montenegro to the United States last December. He served as his country's foreign affairs minister from 2004 to 2006, as a founding member of the Montenegrin Center for Democracy and Human Rights in 1998, and international secretary of the Liberal Party of Montenegro from 1992 to '93. In addition, he is the founder of the Citizens Committee for Peace (the Montenegrin Peace Movement), having organized the first peace rally in Montenegro in 1991. He was a member of Parliament from 1992 until he resigned in 1994.
Vlahovic graduated from the Podgorica Law Faculty in 1986, and has studied at the International Chamber of Commerce, Arbitration in Paris and the International University Center in Luxembourg.
For more information about this event, contact the Center for International and Comparative Law at 410.837.4532.
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