A New Member

Today, the Republic of Montenegro became the 192nd member of the once-191-nation United Nations body. The Balkan country's president, Filip Vujanovic, Foreign Minister Miodrag Vlahovic and U.N. envoy Nebojsa Kaludjerovic were escorted to their new seats next to the Mongolian delegation. Montenegro has about 650,000 people with a landscape of forested mountains and an Adriatic coast. It declared independence from its 88-year partnership with Serbia last month on June 3, after a referendum passed by a slim margin on May 21, thereby completing the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
The U.N. seat previously assigned to Serbia and Montenegro is now in Serbia's hands. The last country to join the United Nations was East Timor, in September 2002.