Vuk Jeremić Delivers Lecture at Serbia’s National Defence School
Vuk Jeremić Delivers Lecture at Serbia’s National Defence School
The President of the Centre for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) Vuk Jeremić delivered a lecture to the students of Advanced Security and Defence Course of the National Defence School.
In his remarks, the former President of the UN General Assembly focused on the current state of international relations, as well as on the course of contemporary trends of the world’s most important political processes. Jeremić spoke at length regarding developments in the Far East and Middle East, as well as on the influence of the domestic political and economic situations in the foreign policy decisionmaking of leading countries.
Students expressed high interest for CIRSD’s activities, as well as for the projects and conferences which CIRSD will organize in 2014.
This is the second lecture by Vuk Jeremić to the School’s Advanced Security and Defence Course. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, he delivered a lecture to the first generation of students of Advanced Security and Defence Course of the National Defence School, in March 2012.
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