On Friday 15 December, the Secretary General, Mr Teodoro Miano, received at the CIHEAM headquarters, Mr Vladimir Joković, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the Economic System and Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Montenegro as well as the Ambassador of the Republic of Montenegro to France, H.E. Ivan Ivanišević. Montenegro was one of the republics making up the former Yugoslavia, one of the founding Member States of the CIHEAM.