Milan Lajčiak

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Milan Lajčiak (born September 28, 1958 ) is a diplomat from Slovakia .

Career

Lajčiak studied from 1977 to 1978 at the University of Economics in Bratislava . From 1978 to 1984 he continued his studies in the Soviet Union at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations .

In 1984 Lajčiak started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia (CSSR). Until 1985 he was a civil servant in the Asia department. From 1986 to 1989 Lajčiak was an attaché at the Czechoslovak embassy in Beijing ( People's Republic of China ). In 1990 he became an official for external relations in the Slovak National Council and in 1991 he became secretary of the Committee for Foreign Policy. In 1992 Lajčiak went to the Consulate General of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (CSFR) in Shanghai (People's Republic of China) as the acting Consul General . After Slovakia gained independence on January 1, 1993, he moved to the new Slovak embassy in Beijing as a consultant, where he stayed until 1996. Lajčiak then returned to Slovakia and became head of the Office of the State Secretary, the Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He held the office until 1997. In 1998 Lajčiak was Minister Counselor at the Slovak Embassy in London ( United Kingdom ).

In December 1998, Milan Lajčiak, succeeding Peter Ambrovič , took up the post of Slovak ambassador to Indonesia . Based in Jakarta , Lajčiak had additional accreditations as ambassador for Brunei , Malaysia , the Philippines and Singapore . During Lajčiak's term of office, the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999 , the interim administration of the United Nations and, on May 20, 2002, East Timor was released from independence. On October 17, 2002, East Timor and Slovakia established diplomatic relations. Milan Lajčiak was the first Slovak ambassador for the new country to receive accreditation. Lajčiak's tenure in Jakarta ended in June 2003. He was succeeded as the new ambassador by Peter Holásek .

Lajčiak became the director of the Foreign Policy Department in the Office of the President of the Slovak Republic. In 2005 Lajčiak again took on the post of ambassador, this time for Malaysia and Brunei. Before and afterwards, the Slovak ambassadors in Jakarta were responsible for these two countries. In November 2012, Lajčiak returned to the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and became Director of the Asia, Africa and Pacific Department. From June 2013 the department "Africa" ​​was separated. Lajčiak has been the Slovak ambassador in Seoul ( South Korea ) since 2014 .

Others

Between 1994 and 2014, Lajčiak wrote commentaries on political and economic issues in East Asia for Slovak broadcasters and print media. He also occasionally gives lectures at Slovak universities. Since 2004 Lajčiak has been a member of the scientific committee of the Gorbachev Foundation "World Political Forum"

In addition to his mother tongue, Lajčiak speaks English, Russian and Chinese.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f The Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Seoul: Milan Lajčiak, Ambassador , June 21, 2016 , accessed on November 7, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Indonesian Embassy in Bratislava: A Brief Portrait of Indonesia and Slovakia Relations , accessed on November 7, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Slovak Embassy in Jakarta: Former Ambassadors , accessed on November 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ YEARBOOK OF SLOVAKIA'S FOREIGN POLICY 2018 , RESEARCH CENTER OF THE SLOVAK FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION, p. 161 , accessed on November 3, 2019.
  5. ↑ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Slovakia: EKONOMICKÁ Informácia O TERITÓRIU Východný Timor , accessed on November 7 of 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Lajčiak, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1958