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CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES |
New Slovak Abassador to US
Dear Mila Rechcigl,
We are pleased to inform you that Mr. Rastislav Kacer, new Ambassador of the
Slovak Republic to the United States of America has arrived to Washington,
DC and on July 30, 2003 presented the copies of his letter of credence to US
Secretary of State Mr. Colin Powell. Thus, Mr. Kacer has formally started
performing his duties as appointed Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the
United States of America. Mr. Kacer will present the original of his letter
of credence to US President George W. Bush in the beginning of September at
the White House.
Mr. Kacer has arrived to Washington, DC from his post of State Secretary
(Deputy Minister) of Defense of the Slovak Republic, which he had held from
February 2001. Before, he was the Director General of the Division of
International Organizations and Security Policy at the Slovak Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. His main task at the Ministry of Defense was Slovakia1s
accession process to NATO, which is being successfully concluded after
Slovakia1s invitation to join the Alliance at the Prague Summit in the fall
of last year. Mr. Kacer had been working at the Foreign Affairs Ministry
since 1992 and between 1994-98 was posted at the Slovak Mission to NATO in
Brussels.
Ambassador Kacer was born on July 9, 1965, in Nova Bana (Slovakia), educated
at the Slovak Technical University (MSc in Organic Chemistry) and Institute
of International Relations, School of Law, Commenius University in
Bratislava. He is married to Otilia Kacerova and has two children daughter
Veronika (17) and son Samuel (8).
Press Office, Embassy of Slovakia
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