Martin Sajdik

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Martin Sajdik (born January 14, 1949 ) is an Austrian diplomat . From the beginning of 2012 to mid-2015 he was Austria's permanent representative at the United Nations .

Life

After graduating from the Theresianum , he studied law at the University of Vienna . In 1972, Martin Sajdik moved to Lomonossow University in Moscow , supported by a grant from the Federal Ministry of Science and Research . From 1973 to 1974 he studied at Johns Hopkins University . He then served as a volunteer at the Austrian foreign trade offices in Belgrade and Nairobi .

From 1974 to 1975 he completed his court year and then worked as an assistant to the export management at Stollack  AG.

In 1978 Martin Sajdik started his diplomatic career as an embassy secretary at the representation in Geneva . From 1980 to 1985 he was counselor and press attaché and from 1991 envoy at the Austrian embassy in Moscow . He then headed the Real Estate Management and Procurement Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . In 1997 he was given the department of EU expansion, foreign trade relations and Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Then in September 2003 he was appointed head of the economic and integration policy section in the Foreign Ministry . From August 1, 2007, Martin Sajdik was the Austrian ambassador to the People's Republic of China, North Korea and Mongolia . From January 4, 2012 to August 30, 2015, he was Head of Mission of the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York , with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Outside of his diplomatic activities, among other things, he worked as an executive councilor and head of the press office at the CSCE . From 1987 to 1989 he headed the Moscow representative office of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein and from 1991 to 1994 Sajdik was managing director of the Maculan group.

In June 2015 it was announced that he would become Ukraine's special envoy for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe . On June 5, 2015, Swiss television (SRF) reported that Ukraine's special envoy Heidi Tagliavini wished to “end her activities in the near future”. Experts assumed that the reason was that Tagliavini wanted to implement the binding Minsk package of measures (also known as "Minsk II") and therefore did not want to participate in new negotiations on further changes ("Minsk III").

At the beginning of 2020, Saijdik handed over the post of Special Envoy to Ukraine for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to Heidi Grau . Shortly before the end of his term in office, he had arranged for an exchange of prisoners between the warring parties.

Web links

Commons : Martin Sajdik  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Permanent Representative ( Memento of April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Austrian Mission New York, wrested on January 28, 2012
  2. ↑ Birkbrunner talks Political talks. Retrieved September 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Top diplomat new OSCE-Ukraine special envoy , Krone.at. June 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ A bad sign? Ukraine's OSCE Representative has had enough , Sputnik, June 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ OSCE Chair Lajčák appoints Heidi Grau as Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group | OSCE. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  6. ^ Prisoner exchange negotiated by Austrians. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sajdik, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1949