Eduard Kukan
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 European parliament in 2009 election.
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:
- Headquarters in the Department of Sub-Saharan Africa (1964–1968)
- Secretariat of the Minister (1973–1977)
- Director of the Department of Sub-Saharan Africa (1981–1985)
- Director of the Department of Latin America (1988–1990)
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