Petar Bošković (Brčeli, 9 July 1931 – Belgrade, 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 Boškovic 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 Djuro Bošković (1914–1945) was a lawyer, a revolutionary, a participant of the National Liberation struggle and a member of (OZNA) the security agency of Yugoslavia that existed between 1944 and 1952. Djuro 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 can 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. 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. He completed his master's degree in political sciences 1973, at the Belgrade Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade. From 1960 until 1965 he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. In the period of 1965-1976 he was appointed as the first deputy director of the Fulbright Commission for scholarships for postgraduate studies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The Fulbright treaty signed between the US and Yugoslavia at the end of 1964 for the exchange of Fulbright scholars and professors was the first such agreed with a Communist country. From 1976 to 1980 he served as First Counselor at the Embassy of Yugoslavia in London. After his return from London, he worked as the head of the department for Western Europe and USA within the Central Committee of the ruling League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) party. He was engaged several times within the Central Committee of the ruling LCY party, although he was never a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. From 1982 until the end of 1984 he served as director and chief editor