Marko Blagojević (born 1976)

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Marko Blagojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Благојевић; born 1976) is a politician and diplomat in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2017 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party parliamentary group, although he does not appear to have been a member of the party.[1] In February 2017, he was appointed as Serbia's ambassador to Cyprus.

Early life and career

Blagojević is from Belgrade. He was secretary-general of Serbia's ministry of foreign affairs during Ivan Mrkić's tenure as minister.[2]

Political career

Blagojević received the 106th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 parliamentary election and was elected when the coalition won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.[3] During his time in parliament, he was a member of the parliamentary committees on European integration, foreign affairs, and defence and internal affairs; a substitute member of the committee on Kosovo-Metohija; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for China, Cyprus, India, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.[4] He was also a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he sat with the European People's Party group.[5]

Ambassador

Blagojević was appointed by President Tomislav Nikolić as Serbia's ambassador to Cyprus on February 22, 2017.[6] He formally resigned from the assembly on April 19, 2017.[7]

References

  1. ^ MARKO BLAGOJEVIĆ, accessed 3 August 2017.
  2. ^ Marko Blagojević ambasador Srbije na Kipru, Blic, 23 February 2017, accessed 3 March 2017.
  3. ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  4. ^ Marko Blagojevic, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 3 March 2017.
  5. ^ Marko BLAGOJEVIĆ, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 13 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Марко Благојевић нови амбасадор Србије на Кипру", Novosti, 23 February 2017, accessed 3 March 2017. A rumour had previously circulated in 2015 that Blagojević would be appointed ambassador to Cyprus, but this did not happen at the time. See "Serbian sources detail list of candidates for ambassador posts," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 13 August 2015 (Source: Text of report by Serbian newspaper Politika website on 11 August).
  7. ^ Current Legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 28 April 2017.