Jan Kavan

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Jan Kavan

Jan Kavan (born October 17, 1946 in London) is a Czech diplomat and politician. He was a member of CPC - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

He is a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party. He was the foreign minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 until 2002, a deputy prime minister from 1999 until 2002, and the chairman of the United Nations general assembly from 2002 until 2003.

His political career in Czech Republic, after return from exile, was hampered by several scandals. While some of those scandal were comparatively minor, as was his driving under influence of alcohol and discovery of unaccounted money in his office, some of them were quite serious, as was a discovery that he was StB (Czech version of KGB) informer while he was in exile in Britain. In Britain he sued the newspaper who published the allegation and won, but in Czech Republic all declassified documents proving his co-operation with StB were published in a book. There were no lawsuits or denials afterwards.

He is married (1991) and has four children.