Ján Kubiš

Ján Kubiš (born November 12, 1952) is a Slovak diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia from July 2006 until January 2009.

From 1993 to 1994, hw was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the UN Office in Geneva, as well as to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and other international organizations.

In July 2005, the European Union appointed Kubiš to be the EU's special envoy to Central Asia.

Kubiš had previously served as the United Nations special envoy to Tajikistan from 1998 to 1999,[3] during the transitional period following the civil war until the country held its first postwar elections.

He resigned from the Libya mission on November 23, 2021,[4][5] less than a year after he took up the role and a month before planned elections in the country.