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Yuri Sterk formally took up his position as Ambassador / Head of EU Delegation to the Republic of Uzbekistan in December 2012.
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Education
Ambassador Yuri Sterk, a career diplomat from the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry, has an Honours degree in Public International Law from the Moscow Institute of International Relations; he has been a trainee in the Diplomatic Training Program at Stanford University, California; he also has a DEA in Political Science, profile "Construction Européenne" from the Institute of Political Science, Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg, France.
Career
Sterk has served as an adviser, as head of the Public International Law unit, director of the NATO directorate and as Director-General for Political Affairs and Security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria.
Soon came the international stage as in 2001-2005 Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and from 2011 to 2012 Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the State of Israel. Just turned 50 he was nominated for the position as Ambassador of the European Delegation to Uzbekistan. There is only one diplomat of Bulgaria before, who also became an ambassador of the European Union – the former Prime Minister Filip Dimitrov, currently the EU-Ambassador to Georgia.