Andrej Benedejčič

[1] From 2011 to 2015 he was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels.

[2] He was Director-General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, responsible for multilateral political relations and global issues from 2009 to 2011.

[3] From 2005 to 2008 he was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia to the Russian Federation in Moscow.

He was awarded the Cyril and Methodius Prize by Patriarch Alexius II of the Russian Orthodox Church.

[7] From 2005 to 2008, he also served as Slovenia's non-resident ambassador to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,[8] Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.