Eduard Kukan
| Eduard Kukan | |
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| Member of the European Parliament from Slovakia | |
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Assumed office 14 July 2009 |
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| Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic | |
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In office 4 July 2006 – 14 July 2009 |
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In office 13 December 1994 – 30 October 1998 |
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| 7th Foreign Minister of Slovakia | |
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In office 30 October 1998 – 4 July 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Zdenka Kramplová |
| Succeeded by | Ján Kubiš |
| 3rd Foreign Minister of Slovakia | |
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In office 16 March 1994 – 13 December 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Jozef Moravčík |
| Succeeded by | Juraj Schenk |
| Slovak ambassador to United Nations |
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In office 1 January 1993 – ??? 1993 |
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| Czechoslovak ambassador to United Nations |
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In office ??? 1990 – 31 December 1992 |
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| Personal details | |
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26 December 1939 Tornóc, Hungary (now Trnovec nad Váhom, Slovakia) |
| Political party |
SDKÚ-DS(2000-2016) Democratic Union (1995-2000) |
| Spouse(s) | Zdenka Kukanová |
Eduard Kukan (born 26 December 1939) served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia from 1998 to 2006. He was a candidate in the presidential election held on 3 April 2004, and although pre-election polls had suggested he would come in first, he actually came in third behind former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar and Ivan Gašparovič, thus preventing him from contesting the run-off. He was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009.
In 1999, Kukan was appointed United Nations Special Envoy on Kosovo by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, a role he held alongside Carl Bildt.
Kukan graduated from The Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1964, where he has also gained an excellent command of the Swahili language. After graduation he received a Doctorate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague.
Since then his employments have included:
Kukan has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections. In the election campaign, he led the list of candidates of the centre-right Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ).
Kukan has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In addition, he was a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights between 2009 and 2014. In 2014, he moved to the Subcommittee on Security and Defence.
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