The respectable institution, named after the first Montenegrin diplomat, it turned out, boils down to a three-month seminar. During these three months, 50 students will spend as many as 120 hours studying diplomatic skills and English language.
Invited to attend the ceremony, professor of the Croatian University Radovan Vukadinovic explained that he feared that it was impossible, even with "selective presentation", to offer necessary knowledge about international relations and diplomatic techniques in three months. At the same time, probably not to come across as rude, he added that something like that would not be possible even in two or four years.
However, Minister Dragisa Burzan knows that there is no need to study certain things. Some of us are simply born knowledgeable. "Diplomacy has been a quintessentially Montenegrin skill for centuries". This does not happen to other nations. In other nations, even if they have any diplomatic skills, these are definitely somehow different. The Minister appropriately mentioned that when our diplomats attended schools abroad, that was useless for them. "That just a lot of theory and has nothing to do with diplomatic skills necessary for Montenegro".
Montenegrin officials, besides relying on our natural talents, also distinguish themselves with their talent for distorting reality. When necessary exaggerate, when needed minimize importance, that's the way to shape reality. So that it cannot be recognized when it stares back at you from TV screens.
There's no academy, so what, you set up a seminar! You name it after a distinguished Montenegrin, invite the president of the state to attend the opening ceremony or send his greetings, or a minister to murmur something about honorable history, bright future and mention the elite. Of course, he must mention experiences from Zagreb or Belgrade. And lo and behold, there's an academy. And it would not sound nice - seminar for future diplomats "Gavro Vukovic".
Perhaps it's not nice to remind at this historic moment that the Academy of Diplomacy courses in Croatia last for one year and that attendees are only employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who have already distinguished themselves in their diplomatic posts. Rather than fifty students who will later have trouble finding work.
Another tiny difference between us and our neighbors. Their students practice to represent their sovereign states. While seniors presented our academicians with Serbia-Montenegro.