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Bratislava Sends New Chief of Mission to Washington

The Slovak Embassy in Washington, DC has a new ambassador as of this month. He is Peter Burian, whose most recent assignment was as head of the Permanent Mission of Slovakia to the United Nations. In that position he also served two years as the permanent representative of Eastern Europe on the Security Council.

Previous posts include Brussels, Prague and Beirut. More importantly, he has already served in Washington. In the 1990s he was in the Czechoslovak Embassy. After the division of that country in 1993, he became the charge d'affaires in the new Slovak embassy and later on deputy to Amb. Branislav Lichardus who is on the FOS Board of Advisors.

In a recent press release in The Slovak Spectator, Amb. Burian said that Slovakia will start preparing a bilateral agreement on social welfare with the United States of America.

"Many people already work on both sides [of the Atlantic] and need to solve the issue of pensions, etc. We will start working on the agreement on social welfare at the bilateral level," Burian said.

He also wants to search for new investors in Washington, intensify economic relations and press on the US administration not to turn away Slovaks who obtained confirmation through the new electronic system for members of Visa Waiver countries.