Hidajet "Hido" Biščević (born 18 September 1951, in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...

) is a

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n diplomat, former Secretary General of the

Regional Cooperation Council The South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) was launched on Bulgaria's initiative in 1996. At the Bulgaria-chaired meeting in Sofia, the Southeast Europe (SEE) countries laid the foundations for regional co-operation for the purposes of c ...

. He is currently working as Croatia's ambassador to

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

. Of Bosniak descent, he is also a journalist, having been editor-in-chief of the ''

Vjesnik ''Vjesnik'' () was a Croatian state-owned daily newspaper published in Zagreb which ceased publication in April 2012. Originally established in 1940 as a wartime illegal publication of the Communist Party of Croatia, it later built and maintaine ...

'' daily from 1990–92, and their foreign affairs editor from 1985–89, as well as an author of several books on international relations, concerning the breakup of Yugoslavia, the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...

and the

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. Biščević graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

. After working at the state-owned ''Vjesnik'' daily newspaper in the 1980s and early 1990s, Biščević joined the Croatian diplomatic service in 1992, and was initially named Head of Department for Asian and Arab Countries at the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Adviser to the Foreign Minister. From 1993–95, he was Croatia's ambassador to

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

, after which he was appointed as Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs (1995–97), before serving as ambassador to

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(1997–2002). Upon returning from

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

, he served as the State Secretary for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2003–07. On 10 May 2007, at the Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Foreign Ministers summit in Zagreb, he was appointed the first Secretary General of the newly established Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), and his term officially began on 1 January 2008.

Selected works

* ''EU for YOU - Functioning of the EU'' (Croatian Edition 2006, with Wolfgang Böhm and Otmar Lahodynsky) * ''Strategija kaosa'' ( en, Strategy of Chaos), (1989) * ''U ime Alaha'' ( en, In the Name of Allah), (1987) * ''Krv na vodi'' ( en, Blood on the Water), (1987)

External links

Biography
at the Regional Cooperation Council official website
Biography
at the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Biscevic, Hidajet 1951 births Living people Croatian diplomats Ambassadors of Croatia to Russia Ambassadors of Croatia to Turkey Journalists from Sarajevo Bosniaks of Croatia Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Ambassadors of Croatia to Serbia Vjesnik editors