Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
In office 4 July 2006 – 14 July 2009
In office 13 December 1994 – 30 October 1998
7th Foreign Minister of Slovakia
In office 30 October 1998 – 4 July 2006
Prime Minister
Mikuláš Dzurinda
Preceded by
Zdenka Kramplová
Succeeded by
Ján Kubiš
3rd Foreign Minister of Slovakia
In office 16 March 1994 – 13 December 1994
Prime Minister
Jozef Moravčík
Preceded by
Jozef Moravčík
Succeeded by
Juraj Schenk
Slovak ambassador to United Nations
In office 1993–1993
Czechoslovak ambassador to United Nations
In office 1990 – 31 December 1992
Personal details
Born
(1939-12-26)26 December 1939 Tornóc, Hungary (now Trnovec nad Váhom, Slovakia)
Died
10 February 2022(2022-02-10) (aged 82) Bratislava, Slovakia
Political party
SDKÚ-DS (2000–2016) Democratic Union (1995–2000)
Spouse
Zdenka Kukanová
Eduard Kukan (26 December 1939 – 10 February 2022) was a Slovakian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2006.[1] He was a candidate in the presidential election held on 3 April 2004, and although pre-election polls had suggested he would come first, he actually came in third behind the eventual President Ivan Gašparovič and former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar, thus preventing him from contesting the run-off. He was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009, a position he held until 2019.
In 1999, Kukan was appointed United Nations Special Envoy on Kosovo by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, a role he held alongside Carl Bildt.[2]
^"Eduard Kukan". European Parliament. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
^Jane Perlez (8 May 1999), Clinton Seeing Bosnian Model For Kosovo Use The New York Times.
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