Petar Bošković

Petar Bošković (9 July 1931 – 14 January 2011) was a Yugoslav and Serbian diplomat. He was an ambassador of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Republic of Cyprus.

Life and work Distinguished brothers Bošković Petar Bošković was born on July 9, 1931, in the Montenegrin village of Brčeli situated near the coastal city and port of Bar. His father Ivo worked in the United States.Petar remained with his mother and brothers in Yugoslavia. Petar's brother Đuro Bošković (1914–1945) was a lawyer, a revolutionary, a participant in the National Liberation struggle and a member of (OZNA) the security agency of Yugoslavia that existed between 1944 and 1952. Đuro became particularly prominent during the World War II battle of Sutjeska when he reported to the military commanding staff that even though they lost two-thirds of the fighters, they could count on them as being in full force. Petar's brother national hero Milo Bošković (1911–1944) was killed in 1944 in the Jasenovac concentration camp. Their sister Velika was a fighter in the Yugoslav Partisans movement engaged with the Fourth Proletarian Montenegrin task force brigade. Petar's wife Branislava Boškovic was the grandchild of Ilija Krpić, who was a priest and one of the founders of the Serbian Cultural and Educational Society Prosveta.

Diplomat

Later 1952, as a young man Petar joined his father Ivo in the United States. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science at the Carlisle Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

At the end of 1993 and in 1994 he held a series of lectures at the American universities Bradley, Dickinson, Lafayette, Lebanon Valley, Colgate, Penn State, and Beavers College where, among others, he tried to point out to the public America's one-sided approach towards the Yugoslavian conflict. In 1999 he was invited once more by American universities as a foreign policy expert to lecture on Serbian-Albanian relations.

He was a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Development in Belgrade.

He is included among the 100 most notable alumni of Dickinson University.

In 1999, he was one of the most important witnesses in the trial of the Ustasha World War II criminal Dinko Šakić. He witnessed how Dinko Šakić killed his brother Milo Bošković in Jasenovac concentration camp. He died on January 14, 2011, in Belgrade.

Works He was a contributor to many newspapers and magazines in Yugoslavia and abroad. In addition to numerous articles published during his career, two books are of particular importance: Recent developments in the Western European Left, Belgrade, 1982 The challenges of technological change, Belgrade 1987