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Line 1: {{Short description\|Dutch diplomat}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=August 2021}} {{Use Indian English\|date=August 2021}} {{BLP sources\|date=June 2010}} [[File:Robert Serry at the UN security council.JPG\|thumb\|Robert H. Serry at the [[UN Security Council]], New York City (December 2009).]] '''Robert H. Serry''' (born c. 1950 in [[Kolkata]]) is a [[Dutch people\|Dutch]] [[diplomat]] who ~~currently serves~~served as the [[United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process]] and the [[UN Secretary-General]]’s Personal Representative to the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] and the [[Palestinian Authority]] from 2007 to 2015. A career diplomat, Serry has served in a variety of diplomatic positions for his ~~country’s~~country's foreign service. ==Biography== While in the [[Netherlands]], he led the Middle East Division of the [[Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]. He participated in the events leading to the [[Madrid Middle East Peace Conference of 1991.]] He was the Dutch [[ambassador]] to [[Republic of Ireland\|Ireland]] and has served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Crisis Management and Operations at the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO). He has been posted to [[Moscow]] and [[New York, New York\|New York]] ([[United Nations]]), and was the first Dutch ambassador to [[~~Kiev~~Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]]. Following his Ukrainian posting Serry wrote a book about his experiences as an ambassador there, titled ''Standplaats Kiev'',<ref>Serry, Robert. ''Standplaats Kiev. Nederlands eerste ambassadeur in Oekraine''. Podium. 1997, 1e druk.</ref> available in the [[Dutch (language)\|Dutch]] and [[Ukrainian (language)\|Ukrainian]] languages. In early March 2014, he was sent to [[Crimea]], [[Ukraine]], to mediate the [[2014 Crimean crisis\|conflict between Russia and Ukraine]], where he was held up by armed guards and was forced to abandon his mission.<ref>{{cite news\|title=OSZE-Beobachter sollen Lage auf der Krim sondieren\|url=http://www.dw.de/osze-beobachter-sollen-lage-auf-der-krim-sondieren/a-17476240\|newspaper=[[Deutsche Welle]]\|date=5 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title=UN envoy threatened at gunpoint in Crimea\|url=http://www.theage.com.au/world/un-envoy-threatened-at-gunpoint-in-crimea-20140306-hvgbz.html\|newspaper=[[The Age]]\|date=6 March 2014}}</ref> Mr. Serry's appointment to the mediator role had been foreshadowed in a telephone conversation in February between [[Victoria Nuland]], Undersecretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, and Geoff Pyatt, U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, on the subject of which political figures should form the next government of Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957 Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call], BBC</ref> == Education and personal ==▼ ~~==Reaction to the death of Ziad Abu Ein==~~ Serry said he was “deeply saddened” by the death of the Palestinian Arab minister Ziad Abu Ein following an altercation between Abu Ein and Israeli soldiers during a demonstration. Serry expressed his condolences to the official’s family, the Palestinian people and its leadership. In 1979 Abu Ein orchestrated a terrorist bombing that killed two Israeli 16-year olds during the [[Lag_BaOmer\|Lag BaOmer]] cerebration in Tiberias. He was sentenced to life inprisonment in 1982 but was released in the 1985 Jibril prisoner exchange deal. <ref>http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-eu-urge-swift-probe-into-palestinian-officials-death</ref><ref>http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Who-was-Ziad-Abu-Ein-384286</ref> ▲== Education and personal == He obtained his degree in [[political science]] from the [[University of Amsterdam]]. Line 21: ==References== Robert Serry on BBC HardTalk: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8055568.stm▼ Secretary-General appoints Robert H. Serry of Netherlands United Nations special co-ordinate for Middle East peace process: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sga1111.doc.htm ▼ Secretary-General names Robert Serry of the Netherlands as Middle East envoy: UN.org http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24847&Cr=middle&Cr1=east▼ {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Authority control\|VIAF=16737799}}▼ ▲{{cite web \| title=Robert Serry on BBC HardTalk: \| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8055568.stm \| date=18 May 2009 \| publisher=[[BBC]] \| accessdate=11 December 2014}} ~~{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->~~ ▲{{cite web \| title=Secretary-General appoints Robert H. Serry of Netherlands United Nations special co-ordinate for Middle East peace process: ~~http~~\| url=https://www.un.org/~~News~~press/~~Press/docs~~en/2007/sga1111.doc.htm \| date=4 December 2007 \| publisher=[[United Nations]] \| accessdate=2 March 2020}} ~~\| NAME = Serry, Robert H~~ ▲{{cite web \| title=Secretary-General names Robert Serry of the Netherlands as Middle East envoy: ~~UN.org~~\| ~~http~~url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24847&Cr=middle&Cr1=east \| date=29 November 2007 \| publisher=[[United Nations]] \| accessdate=11 December 2014}} ~~\| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =~~ ~~\| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Dutch diplomat~~ {{start box}} ~~\| DATE OF BIRTH = 1950~~ {{s-dip}} ~~\| PLACE OF BIRTH =~~ {{succession box \|title=[[United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process\|UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process]] \|before=[[Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan\|Michael Williams]] \|years=December 2007-February 2015 \|after=[[Nickolay Mladenov]]}} ~~\| DATE OF DEATH =~~ {{end box}} ~~\| PLACE OF DEATH =~~ }} ▲{{Authority control~~\|VIAF=16737799~~}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Serry, Robert H}} [[Category:1950 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:~~People~~Politicians from Kolkata]] [[Category:Dutch officials of the United Nations ~~officials~~]] ~~[[Category:Dutch diplomats]]~~ [[Category:Permanent Representatives of the Netherlands to the United Nations]] [[Category:Ambassadors of the Netherlands to Ukraine]] [[Category:~~Israel,~~People ~~Palestine, and~~of the ~~United~~Israeli–Palestinian ~~Nations~~conflict]]