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Stanko Radonjić: The First Montenegrin Diplomatic Representative

Summary/Abstract: Stanko Radonjić was the first Montenegrin diplomatic representative in a foreign country. By presenting the Letter of Credence to the sultan on August 24/ September 5th, 1879, he officially began to exercise his duty of diplomatic representative of Montenegro in the Ottoman Empire. But, the complex relations between Monte-negro and Ottoman Empire made it necessary for the duke Stanko to initiate the negotiations with Safet-pasha even before his audience with the sultan. The main topics of their talks concerned the surrender of Plav and Gusinje, the work of the border demarcation committee as well as the prevention of the Turkish military fortification in Zeta. At the end of December 1879, Radonjić returned to Montenegro. This way he realized the plan of the Montenegrin government by which he was supposed to stay in Istanbul for a short period of time, to exchange opinions with Porta about main problems of the relations between Montenegro and Ottoman Empire as well as to direct the problems towards their solution as much as possible, and then to return to the position of the Minister of Foreign Affaris, and to leave to Gavro Vuković the office of the Montenegrin diplomatic representative in the Ottoman Emprire.

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