Pavol Hamžík | |
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Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia | |
In office October 30, 1998 – May 2001 |
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5th Foreign Minister of Slovakia | |
In office August 27, 1996 – May 25, 1997 |
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Preceded by | Juraj Schenk |
Succeeded by | Zdenka Kramplová |
Personal details | |
Born |
Trenčín, Czechoslovakia |
August 20, 1954
Pavol Hamžík (born August 20, 1954) is a former Foreign Minister of Slovakia from 1996 to 1997 in cabinet of Vladimír Mečiar and also member of government of prime minister Mikuláš Dzurinda. He is currently the foreign policy advisor of Robert Fico.
He studied law at Comenius University in Bratislava, finished in 1978. Mr. Hamžík also studied diplomacy in Moscow (1989–1991).
Since May 2009 he has been the Slovak ambassador in the Ukraine.