Milan Roćen

Milan Roćen ( born November 23, 1950 in Rasova ) is a Yugoslav- Montenegrin politician and diplomat. He was from 2006 to 2012 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Montenegro. He is a member of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro.

Milan Roćen studied before his diplomatic career in journalism at the University of Belgrade and worked for a business magazine. His political activity began in the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist League of Montenegro. In 1988 he became deputy foreign minister of Yugoslavia. From 1992 he worked as an advisor to the Yugoslav ambassador in Moscow and then as a foreign policy adviser to the Montenegrin Prime Minister. From 2003, back in the diplomatic service, he was until 2006 Ambassador of Serbia and Montenegro in Moscow. In this role he was responsible, along with Russia and the former Soviet Central Asia and part of Georgia. Subsequently, he was involved as a close confidant of the Prime Minister Svetozar Marović instrumental in advancing the secession of Montenegro from Serbia and the organization of the referendum on independence. On 10 November 2006 it took the new Prime Minister Željko Šturanović as foreign minister in his government. In 2012, he was replaced as Foreign Minister by Nebojša Kaluđerović.