What is Eduard Kukan?
[[File:Eduard Kukan,Slowakia-MIP-Europaparlament-by-Leila-Paul-1.jpg|right|200px]] '''Eduard Kukan''' (26 December 1939 – 10 February 2022) was a Slovakian politician. He was [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Slovakia)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] from 1998 to 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/committees/view.do;jsessionid=63D8B8C16A3742F41E00972939452BA0.node2?language=EN&id=96651|title=Eduard Kukan|publisher=[[European Parliament]]|access-date=26 May 2010|archive-date=14 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014203832/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/committees/view.do;jsessionid=63D8B8C16A3742F41E00972939452BA0.node2?language=EN&id=96651|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a candidate for [[President of Slovakia]] in the [[2004 Slovakia presidential election|2004 presidential election]]. Kukan was born in [[Trnovec nad Váhom]], then-[[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]]. Kukan was elected [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP) in 2009, a position he held until 2019. Kukan was also a member of the [[National Council (Slovakia)|National Council]] from 1994 until 1998 and again from 2006 until 2009. From 1990 until 1993, Kukan was the Ambassador to the [[United Nations]]. Kukan died on 10 February 2022 in [[Bratislava]], [[Slovakia]] from a [[heart attack]], aged 82.<ref>[https://www.noviny.sk/slovensko/660987-zomrel-eduard-kukan-trojnasobny-minister-zahranicnych-veci Zomrel Eduard Kukan, trojnásobný minister zahraničných vecí]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kukan, Eduard}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction]] [[Category:Members of the European Parliament]] [[Category:Ambassadors to the United Nations]] [[Category:Slovak politicians]] {{bio-stub}}