Dragan Đurović

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Dragan Đurović (born October 31, 1959 in Danilovgrad, Montenegro, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) is the deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro (as of 2001), and the interior minister (as of December 2003). Graduated from the faculty of law.

Among other positions, he was the manager or newspaper and publishing company Pobjeda (1995-2001), the appointed deputy of the House of Citizens of the Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro two times, and deputy of the Parliament of the Republic of Montenegro three times.

He is also the chief deputy of Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro deputy club in Montenegrin Parliament and member of the party's Presidency.

Đurović has been criticized for not fighting trafficking of women effectively enough, and held responsible by the opposition and NGOs for cover-up in the sex-trafficking affair that shook the public in 2003 and 2004, where a Moldovan woman was held imprisoned and sex-tortured by some government officials. [1] [2] [3]

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There is another Montenegrin politician of name Dragan Đurović who is the assistant minister of foreign affairs for Serbia and Montenegro as of December 2003 .

[edit] External links

• Official site of the Government of Montenegro