Selmo CIKOTIC was born on January 25, 1964, in Trpezi, Montenegro where he attended elementary school. He graduated from Military High school in Belgrade in 1982 and from Yugoslav Military Academy in 1986. He began his officer’s career as a commander and teacher at Air Defense School Center at Zadar.
In 1991 he completed English language school at JNA Foreign Languages Center in Belgrade.
During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina he performed different military assignments, including the position of the Operational group ”West” commander during 1993 and 1994 in Central Bosnia.
From December 1994 until June of 1997, he served as the Defense Attaché of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the USA, in Washington DC, where he participated at Dayton peace talks, as a military representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Afterwards, from August 1997, till January 1999, he worked as the Chief of Doctrine, Education and Training Division of B&H Federation Military.
From November 2000 until April 2004 he acted as the Federation Military 1st corps Commander.
From April 22 2007 up to March 05 2012 he was assigned to the position of the Defense Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He defended his PhD theses in July 2008. at Sarajevo University Faculty of Political Sciences where he currently works as visiting profesor.
