Biographical Note

New permanent representative of SERBIA presents credentials

 

(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

The new Permanent Representative of Serbia to the United Nations, Feodor Starčević, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Starčević served as Assistant Foreign Minister and Director-General in the Directorate General for Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, beginning in June 2007.  Between 1995 and 2004 he was Director of the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan, based in New Delhi.  From 1992 to 1995 he was United Nations Chief Representative in United Nations System Coordinator in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Based in London as Minister Counsellor for Political Affairs in the Embassy of the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1990 to 1992, Mr. Starčević was previously Director for International Organizations between 1988 and 1990.  He served as Head of the Group for Political and Legal Affairs in the same Directorate from 1986.

From 1984 to 1986 he was a Senior Information Officer in the Department of Public Information’s Division for Economic and Social Information at United Nations Headquarters in New York, having served as Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1979 to 1984.

Mr. Starčević also served as Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of Yugoslavia to the United Nations in New York from 1979 to 1984, and held the same rank in the Federal Secretariat’s Department for International Organizations from 1976 to 1979.  From 1971 to 1975, he worked as Attaché and Third Secretary in the Permanent Mission to the United Nations. He worked until 1971 as an Attaché in the Division for the United States and Canada, Department for North and South America, having joined the Federal Secretariat in 1969.

Born on 30 June 1942 in Split, Croatia, he graduated from the University of Belgrade Law School, having also attended the School of Journalism of the Vjesnik daily newspaper in Zagreb.  Mr. Starčević speaks English and French.

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