Monday, 22 July 2019, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia: Croatian top diplomat Dr. Gordan Grlić Radman has joined the cabinet of his homeland’s sitting XII Prime Minister Andrej Plenković as chief of diplomacy. He succeeds Marija Pejčinović Burić who was elected as the XIV Secretary General of the Council of Europe on 26 June.
Thus Dr. Gordan Grlić Radman becomes Croatia’s XV Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, which meant a sudden end of his ambassadorship in Germany wherein he had been serving since 2017.
Minister Dr. Grlić Radman is a true European as his language skills prove it: he masters, in addition to his native Croatian, German, English, Bulgarian and Hungarian.
In February 2019 he was the recipient of Diplomat Magazine’s ‘Global Public Diplomacy Award’ (http://www.diplomatmagazine. eu/2019/02/08/the-global- public-diplomacy-award-in- germany/) during a ceremony organized by the Diplomatic Council, held at Hotel Hessischer Hof in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
For further information:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia: http://www.mvep.hr/ hr/ministarstvo/ministar/ zivotopis-ministra/