Hidajet Biščević
Hidajet Biščević | |
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Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council | |
In office 1 January 2008 – 31 December 2012 | |
Succeeded by | Goran Svilanović |
Personal details | |
Born | Croatian | 18 September 1951
Alma mater | University of Zagreb (Faculty of Political Sciences) |
Profession | Journalist, diplomat, author |
Hidajet "Hido" Biščević (born 18 September 1951, in
Of Bosniak descent, he is also a journalist, having been editor-in-chief of the Vjesnik 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 and the Iran–Iraq War.[citation needed]
Biščević graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the
From 1993–95, he was Croatia's ambassador to Turkey, after which he was appointed as Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs (1995–97), before serving as ambassador to Russia (1997–2002). Upon returning from Moscow, he served as the State Secretary for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2003–07.[citation needed]
On 10 May 2007, at the
Selected works
- EU for YOU - Functioning of the EU (Croatian Edition 2006, with Wolfgang Böhm and Otmar Lahodynsky)
- Strategija kaosa (English: Strategy of Chaos), ISBN 86-7125-053-9(1989)
- U ime Alaha (English: In the Name of Allah), ISBN 86-349-0109-2(1987)
- Krv na vodi (English: Blood on the Water), ISBN 86-409-0030-2(1987)