Branko Lukovac passed away

The former head of Montenegrin diplomacy, Branko Lukovac, died in Podgorica at the age of 80.
Branko Lukovac was born in Gornja Morača in 1944. After schooling in Sombor, he went to Belgrade, where he completed the Faculty of Economics and postgraduate studies. After his involvement in the Union of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia, in 1972 he moved to the position of Secretary of the Commission for International Cooperation of the SSRNJ.
In 1974, Lukovac assumed the position of Secretary General of the Yugoslav Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO. After the earthquake in 1979, he worked on the formation of the future Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the SR of Montenegro, then called the Republic Committee for Foreign Relations, and soon became its president. After the end of the ambassador's mandate in Tanzania, the Government of the SFRY appointed him as the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Due to the war and the breakup of Yugoslavia, he resigned in May 1992. At the invitation of the state authorities of Montenegro, in 1999 he took over the representation of the Government of Montenegro in Ljubljana. He was elected Minister of MFA of Montenegro in 2000 and then Minister of International Relations in the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
In the middle of 2005, he was elected as the coordinator of the Movement for an independent European Montenegro. After the referendum, he ends his professional career as the first ambassador of Montenegro to Croatia.
M.J.