Garčević Interviewed on 5th Anniversary of Montenegro’s NATO Membership
In an interview with leading Montenegrin daily Vijesti, Ambassador Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, discussed the 5th anniversary of Montenegro’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership.
In the article, titled “Petogodišnjica članstva u NATO: Crna Gora bi bila najranjivija u regionu (Five Years of NATO Membership: Montenegro Would be the Most Vulnerable in the Region),” Garčević describes membership in the Alliance as one of the best decisions Montenegro has made in recent history. Discussing the lasting repercussions of the invasion of Ukraine for European security, he stresses that the concept of neutrality in Europe that has existed for more than a century should be fundamentally revised. Neutral European countries have modified their neutrality as the result of the aggression including Switzerland which, for the first time in its history, closed the skies for flights of civil planes from another country.
The full interview can be read on Vijesti‘s website.
During his diplomatic career, Ambassador Vesko Garčević dealt with issues pertinent to European security and NATO for almost 14 years. In 2004, he was posted in Vienna to serve as Ambassador to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He had been Montenegro’s Ambassador to NATO from 2010 until 2014 and served as Montenegro’s National Coordinator for NATO from 2015 until he joined the faculty at the Pardee School. Learn more about Ambassador Garčević on his faculty profile.