Nikola Dimitrov (politician)

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Nikola Dimitrov (2017)

Nikola Dimitrov ( Macedonian Никола Димитров ; born September 30, 1972 in Skopje , Yugoslavia ) is a Macedonian diplomat and politician (non-party). He has been Foreign Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia since 2017 .

Life

Nikola Dimitrov studied law at the University of Skopje and the University of Cambridge from 1991 to 1998 . After working in the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as a lecturer in international law and human rights at the University of Skopje, he was deputy to the Macedonian Foreign Minister Aleksandar Dimitrov from March to September 2000 and security advisor to the Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski from October 2000 to November 2001 .

From November 2001 to March 2006 he was Macedonian Ambassador to the United States and from October 2009 to March 2014 in the Netherlands . In addition, he was, among other things, Macedonia's special envoy for the talks on the name dispute with Greece (2003 to 2008), special envoy in Brussels in connection with Macedonia's possible accession to the European Union and NATO (2007 to 2008) and Macedonia’s representative in the organization for the Chemical weapons ban .

In 2014 he turned down the offer to become the Macedonian ambassador to Russia . From 2014 to 2017 he worked at the Dutch think tank The Hague Institute for Global Justice .

In the government of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev , which has been in office since May 31, 2017 , Dimitrov is Foreign Minister.

family

Nikola Dimitrov's father is the writer Dimitar Dimitrov , who was Macedonia's Minister of Education in 1991/92 and Minister of Culture in 1998/99. Nikola Dimitrov is married and has three children.

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personal data
SURNAME Dimitrov, Nikola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Macedonian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Skopje , Yugoslavia