Marketa Fialkova (nee - Marketa Nemtsova ) ( English Markéta Fialková ; March 27, 1956 , Prague , Czechoslovakia - August 23, 2011 , Tirana , Albania ) - Czech diplomat . Czech Ambassador to Poland (1990-1992 and 1993-1994) and Albania (2007-2011).
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Biography
The daughter of the editor of the magazine Tvář (in the 1960s), who during the Prague spring of 1968 was one of the founders of the Council for the Restoration of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia. After 1977, her parents were members of the Charter 77 and the Committee for the Protection of Prosecutors.
In 1977, Market was also among the dissidents who signed the Charter 77 , for which she was unable to complete her studies. She worked as a gardener in the Prague Botanical Garden, a bookstore seller, and a hospital nurse.
Activist of the Polish-Czechoslovak "Solidarity" and the Civil Self-Defense Movement. As an observer, she participated in dissident trials and was repeatedly arrested by the police. She served a prison term several times for political reasons.
After the Velvet Revolution, she received a law degree. Graduated from West Bohemian University in Pilsen .
Since 1990 - at diplomatic work. Employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.
From May 1990 to March 1994, she worked as ambassador of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic to Poland.
In 1994-1995 worked in the analysis and planning department of the Czech Foreign Ministry. Since February 1995, for two years she was the personal secretary of Vaclav Havel . From February 1997, for the next ten years, she worked in the Foreign Affairs Analytical Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1997-1999 she was a consultant to the Commission on State Relations and the Council of Bishops of the Catholic Church. From 1995 to 2006, she worked as an election observer in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Kosovo , Georgia , the Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro .
From September 2007 until his death - Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the Republic of Albania.
She died suddenly.
Rewards
For her services in the development of Czech-Polish relations, the President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Walesa, awarded her the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit for the Republic of Poland .