By Muhammad Sohail
Later this year, new Czech ambassadors to Morocco and Zambia will take up their posts as heads of embassies. Pavel Klucký will go to Rabat and Jiří Kyrian will go to Lusaka.
“I wish both Pavel Klucký and Jiří Kyrian every success in their future assignments,” said Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský on the appointments. Both of them have already received agrément, i.e. consent to serve in the host country.
Pavel Klucký joined the Foreign Ministry in 1989. He has spent much of his career in the Middle East region. From 1991 to 1994, he headed the Liaison Office in Riyadh, and subsequently held senior positions in Abu Dhabi and again in Riyadh. From 2001 to 2005 he worked at the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic in Vienna. He continued to work in multilateral diplomacy in the following years as an expert on the control of weapons of mass destruction. Between 2006 and 2007, he was, among other things, Chairman of the international verification regime of the Zangger Committee, which implements the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and UN Security Council Resolution 1540. He held his first ambassadorial post in Algeria from 2009 to 2013, and for the following four years he was Director of the Middle East and North Africa Department. From 2019 to 2023, he was the Czech Ambassador to Belgium.
Jiří Kyrian started working for the Czech diplomacy in 2001 and at the beginning of his career he focused mainly on security policy. In 2005 he completed a six-month course at the NATO Defence College in Rome. From 2010 to 2012 he was Deputy Director of the Security Policy Department. For the next four years he served as Deputy Ambassador in Belgrade and from
2018-2022 he was Deputy Ambassador in Warsaw. He currently heads the Office of the Senior Director of the European Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Both Pavel Klucký and Jiří Kyrian will take up their posts during September 2025.
