Miroslav Lajčák
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| Miroslav Lajčák | |
 Miroslav Lajčák OHR official portrait |
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| Assumed office 30 June 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Christian Schwarz-Schilling |
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| Born | March 20, 1963 Poprad, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
Dr. Miroslav Lajčák (born on 20 March 1963 in Poprad, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak diplomat.
Lajčák is a law graduate from the Comenius University in Bratislava. He holds Ph.D. 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.
He joined the Czechoslovakian foreign ministy in 1988. Between 1991 and 1993 Lajčák was posted to the Czechoslovakian and subsequently the Slovakian embassy in Moscow. Lajčák 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 EU's supervisor to the 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum.
On 30 June 2007 Lajčák became the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina/EU Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina succeeding Christian Schwarz-Schilling to the post.
On 16 December 2007 he received the Person of the Year award from the largest Bosnian Serbian daily "Nezavisne novine".[1] Almost two weeks later, on 28 December, he was awarded the same title by a daily of the Bosnian Muslims, "Dnevni Avaz". [2]
He is fluent in English, German, Russian, Bulgarian, as well as Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. Lajčák's second wife Jarmila Lajčáková-Hargašová is a TV news presenter.
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