Vuk Jeremic, a former foreign minister of Serbia, is coming to the end of a year in the very important job of President of the UN General Assembly. His tenure has been anything but dull. He organized a concert which featured a Serbian choir singing a song “associated with massacres carried out in the 1990s against civilians who were under the protection of United Nations peacekeepers.” He convened a thematic debate on criminal justice that the U.S. claimed was “trying to discredit the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.” And last week… he went to a Bon Jovi concert.
Veceras u East Rutherford, New Jersey – Bon Jovi http://t.co/RPqQCH9tWY
— Vuk Jeremic (@jeremic_vuk) July 27, 2013
Your eagle-eyed correspondent (me) took to Twitter to congratulate him:
UN General Assembly President @jeremic_vuk is tweeting from @BonJovi concert in New Jersey. This is definitely the high-point of his tenure.
— Richard Gowan (@RichardGowan1) July 28, 2013
And that would normally be that. But wait…
@RichardGowan1 Maybe. Organizing the largest thematic debate in UNGA history wasn’t bas either.I wish you were here to enjoy with us tonight
— Vuk Jeremic (@jeremic_vuk) July 28, 2013
Enough politics! Time for some musical banter:
@jeremic_vuk I only hope that you will celebrate end your time @ #UN with a rendition of @BonJovi‘s “No #Apologies“: http://t.co/hpCfcE1psy
— Richard Gowan (@RichardGowan1) July 28, 2013
And now we know Vuk’s favorite Bon Jovi tumes:
@RichardGowan1 Good idea, that one is one of my favorites! Together with “We weren’t born to follow”
— Vuk Jeremic (@jeremic_vuk) July 28, 2013
Who said the General Assembly was boring?!? Let’s hope that the massed ranks of UN ambassadors will bid Vuk farewell with a rousing rendition of Livin’ on Prayer…
