Minister Selakovic awarded diplomas to the students of the Diplomatic Academy

Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Selakovic awarded diplomas today to the students of the Diplomatic Academy, generation 2020/2021, and emphasized that Serbia embarked on a specific plan to expand its diplomatic network, while planning to open new diplomatic and consular missions that require trained diplomats, young and energetic people motivated by the opportunity to advance.

Stating that the goal was for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to hire more trainees in the next year, Minister Selakovic reminded that Serbia recently opened a consulate in Malta and that our representative office in Chile, as well as Embassies in Bahrain, Ghana and Jordan would be opened soon.

Selakovic expressed confidence that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have its systemic, umbrella law by the end of the year, which would lay the foundations for modern Serbian career diplomacy, and noted that within that law, a section regulating the work of the Diplomatic Academy would have a special role.

The Head of Serbian diplomacy said that the Diplomatic Academy needed to focus a lot more on the knowledge and practical skills that the young staff would encounter in their future work.

Selakovic also referred to the fact that more and more women were attending the Diplomatic Academy every year, noting that diplomacy was one of the professions that was in the phase of significant feminization, and that the future of Serbian and global diplomacy belonged to ladies.