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A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt
While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson
H.E. Mr. Vuk Jeremić, president of the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly
Throughout his five years as Foreign Minister, Mr. Jeremić was actively engaged in the work of the United Nations, representing his country at key sessions of the General Assembly and the Security Council. He led the Serbian delegation at high-level segments of the United Nations Human Rights Council (2008, 2010 and 2011), at the annual General Conference of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and at high-level meetings of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.
Mr. Jeremić also represented Serbia at the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (Istanbul, 2011), the United Nations HighLevel Meeting on Nuclear Security (New York, 2011) and the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (New York, 2010).
.Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia in the USA
Mr. Djerdj Matkovic was born in Subotica, Serbia, on May 28, 1955. He graduated from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law in 1978, International Law and International Organizations.
Career
Since February 2015 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia in the United States
April 2014 - February 2015 Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Mr. Aleksandar Vucic
August 2012 - April 2014 Foreign Policy Advisor to the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Mr. Aleksandar Vucic
February 2012 - July 2012 Chief of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia
2011-2012 Director of the Department for North and South America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia
2007-2011 First Counselor at the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Washington, D.C., USA
2006-2007 Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia
2005-2006 Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro
Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in the USA
Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia in Washington DC: H.E. DJERDJ MATKOVIC
Diplomatic Staff:
- Vladimir Jovicic - Minister Counselor, Deputy Chief of Mission
- Zdravko Pavicevic- Minister Counselor, Political Affairs, OAS
- Ljubomir Postic - First Counselor-Head of the Consular Section
- Aleksandar Vidojevic - Counselor, Political Affairs
- Sandra Pejic - First Secretary, Political Affairs
- Ivana Mangov - Second Secretary, Political Affairs and Press
- Zorka Kekovic - Second Secretary, Political Affairs, Congressional Relations officer
Defense Attache Office:
- Colonel Dragan Galic - Defense, Military, Naval and Air Attaché
- Lieutenant Colonel Dejan Vujaklija - Assistant Defense, Military, Naval and Air Attaché
Other Diplomatic Missions of Serbia in the USA
- PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA TO THE UNITED NATIONS
854 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y.10065
H.E. Mr. Milan Milanović, Ambassador
phone: (212) 879-8700
fax: (212) 879-8705
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web: www.un.int/serbia
- CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA - NEW YORK
62 West 45th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Mirjana Zivkovic, Consul General
phone: (212) 596 4241
fax: (212) 596 4363
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web: www.serbiaconsulatenyc.com
- CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA - CHICAGO
201 East Ohio Street, Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60611
Dejan Radulovic, Consul General
phone: (312) 670-6707
fax: (312) 670-6787
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web: www.scgchicago.org
Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Canada
H.E. Mihailo PAPAZOGLU
Ambasador
Mirjana Šešum – Ćurčić
Counselor
Miodrag Sekulić
Counselor
Milan Reljić
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Bishop Damaskin (Grdanički)
Bishop Damaskin was born in Leskovac in 1892. He graduated from the nine year St. Sava Seminary in Belgrade, while simultaneously attending the Belgrade Music School. After finishing the Seminary, he taught music at the First High School in Kragujevac. Received into the monastic order at Rakovica Monastery by Archimandrite Platon, later martyred as Bishop of Banja Luka, he studied at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy where he received a Master's Degree in Theology in 1917. He then went to Freiburg, Switzerland where he obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy.
Publishing
In the Mirror
A Collection of Iconographic Essays and Illustrations
By Fr. Stamatis Skliris
The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America is pleased to announce the publication of an outstanding book by Fr. Stamatis Skliris, a disciple of the great twentieth-century theologians Archimandrite Justin Popovich and Bishop Athanasius Yevtich. Fr. Stamatis is a parish priest in Athens and is renowned as an iconographer and as a writer and lecturer on Byzantine iconography.
In the Mirror is the second of a planned collection of works of contemporary theologians. It is an anthology of Fr. Stamatis’ articles which have appeared in Greek and Serbian. In it, he combines adherence to the teachings of the Church Fathers with a vibrant expression of faith through the experience of Christ in the Church. The book is adorned with more than 200 striking icons and illustrations by Fr. Stamatis.