Biographical Note

New Permanent Representative of Serbia presents credentials

 

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Pavle Jevremovič, the new Permanent Representative of Serbia to the United Nations, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today.

From 2005 until his current appointment, Mr. Jevremovič served as Assistant Minister for European Union Affairs and Regional Integrations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro.  From 2003 to 2005 he was Ambassador of Serbia and Montenegro to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and from 2000 to 2003, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the same organization.

In 2000, he served as Foreign Policy Adviser to the President and, from 1992 to 2000 as Minister-Counsellor in the Directorate for the Non-Aligned Movement, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

From 1987 to 1992, Mr. Jevremovič was Director, Foreign Policy Department of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and from 1989, concurrently, Foreign Policy Adviser to the President.

Mr. Jevremovič worked in the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1973 until 1987 as follows: from 1973 to 1977 as Counsellor, Political Affairs in his country’s Embassy in New Delhi, India; 1977 to 1980 as Counsellor, Policy Planning Department; 1980 to 1984 as Counsellor, Political Affairs, in the Embassy in Washington D.C., United States; and 1984 to 1987 as Director, Department for South and South-East Asia.

He began his professional career as Research Scholar in the Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, where, from 1963 until 1973, he worked on a project concerning social and political change in developing countries.

Mr. Jevremovič graduated in Law at the University of Belgrade in 1963.  In 1972 he obtained his masters degree in political science and administration and, in 1973, his PhD in Political Science at the same University.  From 1968 to 1973 he undertook post-graduate studies at the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi, India.

Born in 1940 in Užice, Serbia, Mr. Jevremovič is married and has three sons.

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