Miroslav Lajčák is a Slovak diplomat and currently the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia.
Education
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy 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.
Career
He is also serving as Deputy Prime Minister. Lajčák is a law graduate from the Comenius University in Bratislava. Diplomatic career
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 European Union"s supervisor to the 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum.
On 30 June 2007 Lajčák became the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina/European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina succeeding Christian Schwarz-Schilling to the post.
He kept this post until March 2009. Minister of Foreign Affairs
On 26 January 2009 Lajčák became the Foreign Minister of Slovakia in the Fico"s First Cabinet, until July 2010. In December 2010 he was appointed as Managing Director for Russia, Eastern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans in the European Union"s External Action Service.
He served until April 2012.
In April 2012 he was named, as an independent, the Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the Fico"s Second Cabinet. Lajčák has been mentioned as a possible candidate to seek the post of new United Nations secretary-general after the term of Ban Ki-moon, from South of Korea, expires.
Politics
Until the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia he was a member of Communist Party.