Milica Pejanović-Đurišić

Milica Pejanović-Đurišić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Милица Пејановић-Ђуришић; born 27 April 1959) is a Montenegrin professor and politician who was Minister of Defense from 2012 to 2016. She is the first woman to hold this office. She has been serving as Ambassador of Montenegro to the United Nations since 2018.

Political career Pejanović-Đurišić with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Pentagon, 6 September 2012

Anti-bureaucratic revolution and the DPS foundation Pejanović-Đurišić was active in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, where Momir Bulatović chose her as a board member on the organizational committee which replaced the older communists during the anti-bureaucratic revolution in Montenegro in January 1989. When Yugoslavia began to break up, she supported Montenegro remaining in Yugoslavia in 1992. After Montenegro's independence in 2006, she served as Montenegro's ambassador to France, Monaco (Pejanović-Đurišić being fluent in French) and UNESCO from February 2007 to 2010.

Minister of Defence of Montenegro In 2012, Pejanovic-Djurisic was appointed as Minister of Defence in the Milo Đukanović's VI Cabinet of Montenegro, as a member and vice-president of the Đukanović's DPS. She was first female office holder of Minister of Defence of Montenegro. She was in office until October 2016, when she was replaced by Predrag Boskovic, also an DPS member.