H.E. Mr. Karel Schwarzenberg was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs after the elections in July this year for the second time. During his impressive political and diplomatic career, he has held many significant positions in the Czech government as well as abroad. In 1990 he was appointed member of the Advisory Board of the first Czech president Václav Havel. Later that year, he became his Councellor until 1992, when he was assigned to lead the first OSCE Delegation in Nagorno-Karabakh after the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan broke out. After a longer pause between 1992 and 2004, he became Member of the Senate of the Czech Republic, Member of the Committee on EU Affairs and the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security (2005-2007). In the meantime, he served as the member of the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic in the CE Parliamentary Assembly (since 2005), later, as member of the Permanent Representation in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly until 2007,when he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs for the first time.