Petar Petković

Petar Petković (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Петковић; born 12 July 1980) is a Serbian politician who is currently serving as the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija since 8 October 2020. Previously he served as the Assistant Director of the office and was a Member of the National Assembly. He was a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) until he joined the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Petar Petković
Петар Петковић
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija
Assumed office
8 October 2020
PresidentAleksandar Vučić
Preceded byMarko Đurić
Personal details
Born (1980-07-12) 12 July 1980
Zaječar, SR Serbia SFR Yugoslavia
Political partySerbian Progressive Party
Democratic Party of Serbia (until 2014)
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade

Biography

Early life and education

He was born in 1980 in Zaječar which at the time was a member of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[1]

He graduated from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Belgrade and the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia. He did his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade at the Department of International Studies and received a masters degree.[2]

Political career

Petković served as an advisor in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Serbia Vojislav Koštunica from 2007 to 2008.[3]

After the 2012 parliamentary elections, he was elected MP on the list of the Democratic Party of Serbia.[1]

In October 2014, Petković left the DSS only a day after its founder and longtime leader Vojislav Koštunica left the party. In the meantime, he joined the Serbian Progressive Party and became a member of the party's Main Board.[2]

He has been the Assistant Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija from April 2016 to October 2020 when he took over as the Director replacing Marko Đurić who was named the new Ambassador of Serbia to the United States of America.[2][4] On 8 December 2022, during the North Kosovo crisis, Petković stated that Serbia could respond by sending up to 1,000 security force personnel to Kosovo in accordance with the UN Resolution 1244.[5]

Personal life

Petković speaks English and can use Russian. He is married to his wife Ivana, and is the father of two children.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Otvoreni Parlament". otvoreniparlament.rs. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  2. "Petar Petković". Istinomer (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  3. "Biografija Petra Petkovića, novog direktora Kancelarije za KiM - Kosovo Online". www.kosovo-online.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  4. "Marko Đurić više nije direktor Kancelarije za Kosovo". Radio Slobodna Evropa (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  5. "Srbija prijeti da će poslati 1000 pripadnika snaga sigurnosti na sjever Kosova". N1 (in Bosnian). 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
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