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Miroslav Lajčák, OSCE CiO and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
“To ensure a safer future in Europe, we need to do more than just react!”
Miroslav Lajčák is Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic. During calendar year 2019, the 56-year-old is also the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). From 2017 until 2018 Lajčák served as President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session, where he advocated for dialogue, strengthening multilateralism and serving the needs of all people. Sven Lilienström, founder of Faces of Peace, spoke with Miroslav Lajčák about peace, the crisis of multilateralism and the Ukraine conflict.
Miroslav Lajčák, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic | © Michael Brochstein – Alamy Stock
Mr. Lajčák, the Faces of Peace initiative aims to highlight existing and future potential conflicts and find diplomatic solutions. What does “peace” mean for you personally?
Miroslav Lajčák: Obviously, peace means something different for every person. To me it is much more than, simply, the absence of conflict.
Peace is waking up without fear; it is looking to the future with hope; it is opportunity!
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Lidija Kujundžić
Bosnia is unique in terms of the complexity of its system of government, and the way in which the Federation is organised is certainly not a model of functionality and simplicity. It is a vicious circle, which demands the re-opening ofDayton…
The decision of Miroslav Lajčák, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, to seize ID cards and passports belonging to the wife, son, daughter, and son-in-law of the Hague fugitive Radovan Karadžić, again stirred up feelings and upset many in Bosnia. On both sides of the Drina River, in Republika Srpska and Serbia, Lajčák’s enterprising spirit has been interpreted as an attack on everything Serbian. Amid a lack of information or evidence, media have concluded that Karadžić’s closest family members are not helping the most wanted Hague fugitive evade justice. The innocence of a family suffering because of the father’s sins (crimes) has been highlighted, as well as the fact that the international community is constantly violating their human rights, because Karadžić’s family is living in the hell of constant psychological harassment, searches, threats and surveillance by EUFOR, local police and who knows who else. Sitting cosily in a black leather chair in Sarajevo, without any
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