Miroslav Lajčák
| Miroslav Lajčák | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office 4 April 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Robert Fico |
| Preceded by | Mikuláš Dzurinda |
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In office 26 January 2009 – 8 July 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Robert Fico |
| Preceded by | Ján Kubiš |
| Succeeded by | Mikuláš Dzurinda |
| High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
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In office 30 June 2007 – 26 March 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Christian Schwarz-Schilling |
| Succeeded by | Valentin Inzko |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
20 March 1963 Poprad, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
| Political party |
Communist Party (Before 1992) Direction-Social Democracy (1994–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Jarmila Hargašová |
| Alma mater |
Comenius University Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Miroslav Lajčák (born 20 March 1963) is a Slovak diplomat and currently the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia. He is also serving as Deputy Prime Minister.
Lajčák is a law graduate from the Comenius University in Bratislava. He holds a Master degree in international relations from the State Institute of International Relations in Moscow and is also a graduate of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Until the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia he was a member of Communist Party. He joined the Czechoslovak foreign ministry in 1988. Between 1991 and 1993 Lajčák was posted to the Czechoslovak and subsequently the Slovak embassy in Moscow. He was Slovakia’s ambassador to Japan between 1994 and 1998. Between 1993 and 1994 he served as the chef de cabinet of Slovakia’s then Foreign Minister and later Prime Minister, Jozef Moravčík. Between 2001 and 2005, Lajčák was based in Belgrade as Slovakia’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro), Albania and the Republic of Macedonia. He was the EU's supervisor to the 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum.
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