Pavol Hamžík (born 20 August 1954) is a former Foreign Minister of Slovakia from 1996 to 1997 in cabinet of

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and also member of government of prime minister

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. He is currently the foreign policy advisor of

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. He studied law at

Comenius University in Bratislava Comenius University Bratislava () is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is named after Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th-century ...

, finished in 1978. Hamžík also studied diplomacy in Moscow (1989–1991). Since May 2009 he has been the Slovak ambassador in Ukraine.

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