Ambassador
Veljko Lazic
Date and place of birth: 03 August 1969 in Belgrade
Marital status: spouse Olga, daughter Lana
Graduated from Faculty of Law in Belgrade (1994)
Diplomatic Academy, the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (October 1996 - June 1997)
Career:
March 2024 –
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Argentina, Non – resident to the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, the Republic of Peru, the Republic of Paraguay, the Republic of Ecuador and the Plurinational State of Bolivia
December 2020 - February 2024
Head of the Department for North and South America, MFA
August 2014 – August 2020
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federative Republic of Brazil,
Non-resident to Republic of Ecuador and Plurinational State of Bolivia
March 2012 – June 2014
Deputy Chief of Mission - Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of
Serbia in Rome, Italy
February 2011 – February 2012
First Counsellor – Assistant Secretary General, MFA
November 2010 – February 2011
Counsellor – Assistant Secretary General, MFA
August 2006 – October 2010
Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia to the Holy See, Rome
March 2005 – August 2006
Counsellor – Assistant Secretary General, MFA
December 2002 – March 2005
First Secretary – Department for Europe (Division for France, Spain, Portugal and
the Benelux countries) MFA
September 2002 – December 2002
Second Secretary – Department for Europe (Division for France, Spain, Portugal and
the Benelux countries) MFA
August 1998 – September 2002
Attaché at the Yugoslav Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal
July 1997 – August 1998
Third Secretary – Department for Research and Documentation, Federal Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
August 1996 – June 1997
Trainee – Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs
March 1995 – August 1996.
Trainee – Municipal Court in Belgrade
September 1994 – February 1995
Trainee – Law Office
Languages:
- English
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Spanish