Miroslav Lajčák

Lajčák ( born March 20, 1963 in Poprad, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak diplomat and non-party politician. Currently (2013 ) is Lajčák Foreign Minister and Vice Premier of the second Fico government, which was formed after the elections of March 2012 on April 4, 2012.

Life

Lajčák graduated from the Comenius University in Bratislava and then studied at the Moscow Institute of International Relations. He is also a graduate of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch -Partenkirchen.

As a lawyer, he joined in 1988 the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry, when he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Moscow, where he worked between 1991 and 1993 for the Czechoslovak and Slovak Embassy. He then worked for several months as Chief of Cabinet to Foreign Minister Jozef Moravčík, who later became Prime Minister again in Slovakia. Between 1994 and 1998 acted Lajčák as Ambassador to Japan, and from 2001 to 2005 as Ambassador of Slovakia in Belgrade, also accredited to Macedonia and Albania.

On 30 June 2007 triggered Lajčák, after a recommendation by the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Christian Schwarz- Schilling from the Office of the High Representative of the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the EU Special Representative. He resigned from this position back because of a request from Bratislava and was then foreign minister of his country. In the last months of his term as EU representative to Lajčák had complained frequently about the blockade of the different groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 26 January 2009 to July 9, 2010 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia.

Lajčák describes himself as a " realist ".