The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today that the long-time diplomat and retired ambassador Milan Begović has passed away.
Begović started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro in May 2000. In September 2001, he became assistant minister of foreign affairs and head of the Department for Bilateral Relations. From 2004 to 2006, Begović was the deputy permanent representative in the SCG Mission to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Until 2007, he held the position of permanent representative in the Mission of Montenegro to that organization, where he then continued his service as deputy permanent representative from 2007 to 2010, when he became the national coordinator of the CEI organization and head of the Montenegrin delegation at the Subregional Arms Control Conference. .
He was appointed as the ambassador of Montenegro in Romania in 2013.
He began his diplomatic career as an intern in 1977 at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the SFRY. From 1978 to 1981, Begović served as second secretary at the Embassy of the SFRY in Tokyo, while he was the first secretary at the Embassy of the SFRY in Addis Ababa from 1985 to 1989.
"Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs share the grief of the family of our diplomat Milan Begović and mourn the loss of a long-time colleague and friend who made a great contribution to this institution and the state of Montenegro," the department announced.
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