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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 of Abu Ein, who tried to force his way past an Israeli Defense Forces contingent during a "protest march" in Samaria.<ref name=AbuEinProtestMarch>{{cite news \| last1=Ronen \| first1=Gil \| first1=Ari \| last1=Yashar \| title=PA 'Suspends Coordination' after Official Dies in Clash with IDF \| url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188475 \| accessdate=11 December 2014 \|issue=Main - News - Defense/Security \| publisher=Arutz Sheva \| date=10 December 2014}}</ref> 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 and 36 other youths wounded during the [[Lag BaOmer]] cerebration in Tiberias. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1982 but was released in the 1985 Jibril prisoner exchange deal.<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-eu-urge-swift-probe-into-palestinian-officials-death \| title=UN, EU urge swift probe into Palestinian official’s death \| author=Times of Israel staff \| date=10 December 2014 \| publisher=Times of Israel }}</ref><ref name=WhoIsAffraidOfAbuEin>{{cite news \| last1=Abu Toameh \| first1=Khaled \| title=Profile: Who was Ziad Abu Ein \| url=http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Who-was-Ziad-Abu-Ein-384286 \| accessdate=11 December 2014\|publisher=Jerusalem Post \| date=11 December 2014 \| others=19 Kislev, 5775}}</ref> ▲== Education and personal == He obtained his degree in [[political science]] from the [[University of Amsterdam]]. Line 25: ==External links== {{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}} {{cite web \| title=Secretary-General appoints Robert H. Serry of Netherlands United Nations special co-ordinate for Middle East peace process \| url=~~http~~https://www.un.org/~~News~~press/~~Press/docs~~en/2007/sga1111.doc.htm \| date=4 December 2007 \| publisher=[[United Nations]] \| accessdate=112 ~~December~~March ~~2014~~2020}} *{{cite web \| title=Secretary-General names Robert Serry of the Netherlands as Middle East envoy \| url=~~http~~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}} {{start box}} {{s-dip}} {{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]]}} {{end box}} {{Authority control~~\|VIAF=16737799~~}} ~~{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->~~ ~~\| NAME = Serry, Robert H~~ ~~\| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =~~ ~~\| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Dutch diplomat~~ ~~\| DATE OF BIRTH = 1950~~ ~~\| PLACE OF BIRTH =~~ ~~\| DATE OF DEATH =~~ ~~\| PLACE OF DEATH =~~ }} {{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]]