On the ocassion of the Victory Day marking the end of the WW II, Ambassador Dr Dejan Popović and Assistant Defence Attaché Major Bojan Veličković laid a wreath at the Tower Hill Memorial in London, which commemorates men and women of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets who died in the war. Among 4,786 sunk merchant ships there were two Yugoslav rendering services for the Royal Navy – Vojvoda Putnik (44 of the crew were killed) and Velebit (28 of the crew perished). 

On 6 May 2013 Ambassador Dr Dejan Popović delivered a lecture under the title “SERBIA AND REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: EU Membership Perspective as a Tool for Overcoming the Past” at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He addressed a large audience of students at SEESOX, professors and other academics. After Lady Elizabeth Roberts, lecturer on the Balkans politics, had made her comments, a vibrant Q & A session followed.

At the funeral service of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, held in St Paul’s Cathedral, on Wednesday, 17 April 2013, the Republic of Serbia was represented by Mr. Goran Aleksić, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs. The previous day, Mr. Nebojša Radojičić, Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Serbian Embassy in London signed in the Book of Condolences.