The first head of diplomacy in independent Montenegro and the first Montenegrin ambassador to the United States of America (USA), Miodrag Vlahović, has been proposed as a non-resident ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, "Vijesti" has learned from the Government.
Vlahović is thus returning to diplomacy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs three years after returning from his ambassadorship in Washington.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", the Government adopted the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration that Vlahović from Podgorica represents Montenegro in the Republic of South Africa, while the official Podgorica is waiting for the award of the agreement. Vlahović did not want to comment on that information yesterday, referring the journalist to the ministry led by Igor Lukšić.
The former Montenegrin head of diplomacy was appointed as the first Montenegrin ambassador to the USA half a year after the referendum on independence, and he ended his diplomatic career after the end of his mandate when he was succeeded in Washington in 2010 by the former dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Srđan Darmanović.
Although it is a common practice in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make diplomats available to the ministry after returning from abroad, Vlahović, as far as is known, was not engaged anywhere after returning from the USA.
According to some speculations, Vlahović refused the engagement in the ministry due to disagreements with the then head of diplomacy, Milan Rocen.
According to the Law on Foreign Affairs, former diplomats are obliged to make themselves available to the ministry after returning from a diplomatic mission, which can assign them to jobs in accordance with the needs in the same or lower diplomatic rank. Unlike other ambassadors, Montenegro has not had a diplomatic representative in Cape Town until now, and according to the law on foreign affairs, a non-resident ambassador can be a diplomat of a third country or ministry. According to "Vijesti" information, Vlahović could be engaged as a diplomatic representative of Montenegro in some other African countries and organizations.
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