| Name: |
Adam Kobieracki |
| Current Position: |
Assistant Secretary General for Operations |
| Personal Information: |
Nationality: Polish
Place and Date of Birth: Warsaw, Poland 01/06/1957 |
| Education: |
1975-1982 Warsaw University, Faculty of Journalism
and Political Sciences, Moscow State Institute of International
Relations |
| Profession: |
Career Diplomat
|
| Diplomatic rank: |
Ambassador |
| Specialisation: |
Multilateral diplomacy, international security
issues and arms control negotiation |
| Professional Career: |
1982-2003 - in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1982-89 - Department of Studies and Programming (security and arms control issues)
1989-91 - Department of European Institutions
1991-2000 - permanent posts abroad (see below)
March 2000-March 2001 - Director, Department for European Security Policy, MFA
April 2001-August 2003 - Director, Security Policy Department, MFA |
| Short-term Posts Abroad: |
1985-86 - Expert in the Polish Mission to the UN in Vienna
1986 - Member of the Polish Delegation to the MBFR Talks in Vienna
1986-87 - Member of the Polish Delegation to the CSCE Vienna
Follow-up Meeting and CFE Mandate Talks
1989-90 - Member and Deputy Head of the Polish Delegation to
the CFE negotiation in Vienna |
| Permanent Posts Abroad: |
1991-2000 - in the Polish Mission to the UN (and IAEA) and
the OSCE in Vienna, since 1993 - Counsellor and Deputy Head,
since 1996 Minister Counsellor and Deputy Head of the Mission
and of the Polish Delegation to the Joint Consultative Group.
Since June 1997 - Ambassador, Head of the Permanent Mission of
Poland to the IAEA, United Nations Office and the International
Organisations in Vienna, Head of the Mission of Poland to OSCE,
Head of the Polish Delegation to the Joint Consultative Group
(CFE Treaty)
1993 - Chairman of the Working Group which negotiated the
document on stabilising measures for localized crisis situations,
OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation, Vienna
1994 - Co-ordinator of the negotiation on the Vienna Document
1994 (CSBMs), Vienna
1998 - Chairman of the OSCE Permanent Council (due to the Polish
OSCE Chairmanship that year)
1998 - Chairman of the Security Model Committee (which negotiated
the OSCE Charter on European Security)
1997-1999 - Chief Polish negotiator at the CFE adaptation talks,
Vienna
|
Participation in Main
Inter-Governmental
Conferences:
|
1994-2003 - member of Polish delegations to the OSCE Ministerial
and Summit
Meetings
May 1996 - Chairman of the Working Group at, and Deputy Head of the Polish Delegation
to the First CFE Treaty Review Conference, Vienna
December 1998 - Chairman of the Preparatory Meeting to the Seventh Meeting of
the OSCE Ministerial Council, Oslo
April-May 2000 - Chairman of the Main Committee II at the NPT Review Conference,
New York
May 2001 - Head of the Polish Delegation to the Second CFE Treaty Review Conference,
Vienna
2000-2003 - member of Polish delegations to all NATO Ministerial and Summit Meetings |
| Publications: |
Contributed inter alia to: the book “Miedzy równowaga
sil a bezpieczenstwem kooperatywnym w Europie (adaptacja rezimu
CFE do nowego srodowiska miedzynarodowego)” by Z. Lachowski
and J. M. Nowak (Between the balance of power and co-operative
security in Europe – the adaptation of the CFE regime to
new international environment) Warsaw 1999, Centrum Stosunków
Miedzynarodowych (Center of International Relations), the book “Polska
polityka bezpieczenstwa 1989-2000”, ed. by R. Kuzniar,
Warsaw 2001, WN Scholar (Polish Security Policy 1989-2000). |
| Languages: |
English, Russian - excellent
French and German – basic (passive knowledge) |
| Family status: |
Married, two children. |
