Dragan Sutanovac will be new ambassador Serbia in United States of America, claim the media close to the government. He was allegedly appointed at the session of the Government of Serbia held on Thursday (January 16).
The Government of Serbia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have not yet officially announced anything, and "Vreme" has not received confirmation from either of these institutions.
"The Government cannot confirm such information to you, take it from other media", we were told in a short telephone conversation with the authorities in the office of Prime Minister Miloš Vučević.
Marko Đurić, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, previously announced that before the inauguration of the newly elected US President Donald Trump on January 20, Belgrade will send the name of the new Serbian ambassador in Washington to the American side.
Who is Dragan Sutanovac?
Minister, president of the Democratic Party, deputy, are just some of the positions he held during his long political career.
Today, Dragan Šutanovac is the president of the Council for Strategic Policies, a research center based in Belgrade, an organization that, as stated on its website, is "dedicated to objective and comprehensive research on security, geopolitical and geoeconomic issues that affect the environment and can potentially lead to conflict ".
A walk through the Democratic Party
Šutanovac entered politics in 1997, as a member of the Democratic Party (DS).
He was a member of the Municipal Board of Zvezdar, a member of the Executive and Main Boards, as well as the Presidency of the Democratic Party, and a member of the Presidency of the Democratic Party for the Belgrade region.
In December 2010, he was elected vice-president of the party, and in the first direct party elections of the new leadership of the Democratic Party, on September 24, 2016, he became the president of that political party.
After the elections for the Belgrade City Assembly, held in March 2018, he resigned from the position of DS president, due to, as he said, "responsibility for the bad result in the elections."
"Despite the setbacks, I think we are the best party in Serbia." I invite all DS members to think about what we should do and to create a new environment together, because the way we work is not functional," said Šutanovac at the time.
He was deleted from the membership of the Democratic Party in November 2021.
Member of Parliament and Minister
In the meantime, he held several state functions.
In November 2000, he was appointed as a special adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
In 2001, he was an assistant to the Federal Minister of Internal Affairs, and for the next two years he was the chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
He was a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in several of its convocations, as well as a councilor in the Assembly of the City of Belgrade.
He was the Minister of Defense in the Government of Serbia in the period 2007-2008. year.
He was elected to the same position in the Government of Mirko Cvetković in 2008.
In the shadow government, which was formed in March 2015 by the Democratic Party, he was elected as the Minister of Police.
Dragan Šutanovac was born in 1968 in Belgrade, where he finished elementary school and the Sixth Belgrade High School.
He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, Department of Hydropower. He specializes in security. He completed special courses in the United States of America, and has a diploma from the American-German Marshall Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, according to the website of Istinomer.
