Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will pay a visit to Montenegro on February 22 upon an invitation of Dusko Knezevic, the founder and president of Montenegro's largest financial group Atlas Group and a member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), in order to hold a lecture at the conference dubbed Balkan Network for Social Strengthening.

According to Atlas Group, the conference will gather the Balkan leaders in the non-profit, political and business sector in an attempt to establish a private-public network whose role would be to look for a sustainable model of social strengthening abroad, Montenegrin web portal Vijesti Online published.

Established in 2005 by Bill Clinton, the CGI have brought together nearly 100 current and former heads of state, 14 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, hundreds of leading CEOs, heads of foundations, major philanthropists, directors of the most effective nongovernmental organizations, and prominent members of the media.

Some of the notable CGI members are: Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Al Gor, Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Clinton, Kofi Annan, Madeleine Albright, Matt Damon, Demi Moore and Brad Pitt.