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[[File:Robert Serry at the UN security council.JPG|thumb|Robert H. Serry at the [[UN Security Council]], New York City (December 2009).]]<br />
'''Robert H. Serry''' (born c. 1950 in [[Kolkata]]) is a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[diplomat]] who served as the [[United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process]] and the [[UN Secretary-General]]’s Personal Representative to the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] and the [[Palestinian Authority]] from 2007 to 2015.<br />
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A career diplomat, Serry has served in a variety of diplomatic positions for his country's foreign service.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
While in the [[Netherlands]], he led the Middle East Division of the [[Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]. He participated in the events leading to the [[Madrid Middle East Peace Conference of 1991.]]<br />
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He was the Dutch [[ambassador]] to [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] and has served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Crisis Management and Operations at the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO). He has been posted to [[Moscow]] and [[New York, New York|New York]] ([[United Nations]]), and was the first Dutch ambassador to [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]]. Following his Ukrainian posting Serry wrote a book about his experiences as an ambassador there, titled ''Standplaats Kiev'',<ref>Serry, Robert. ''Standplaats Kiev. Nederlands eerste ambassadeur in Oekraine''. Podium. 1997, 1e druk.</ref> available in the [[Dutch (language)|Dutch]] and [[Ukrainian (language)|Ukrainian]] languages.<br />
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In early March 2014 he was sent to [[Crimea]], [[Ukraine]], to mediate the [[2014 Crimean crisis|conflict between Russia and Ukraine]], where he was held up by armed guards and was forced to abandon his mission.<ref>{{cite news|title=OSZE-Beobachter sollen Lage auf der Krim sondieren|url=http://www.dw.de/osze-beobachter-sollen-lage-auf-der-krim-sondieren/a-17476240|newspaper=[[Deutsche Welle]]|date=5 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=UN envoy threatened at gunpoint in Crimea|url=http://www.theage.com.au/world/un-envoy-threatened-at-gunpoint-in-crimea-20140306-hvgbz.html|newspaper=[[The Age]]|date=6 March 2014}}</ref> Mr. Serry's appointment to the mediator role had been foreshadowed in a telephone conversation in February between Victoria Nuland, Undersecretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, and Geoff Pyatt, U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, on the subject of which political figures should form the next government of Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957 Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call], BBC</ref><br />
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==Education and personal==<br />
He obtained his degree in [[political science]] from the [[University of Amsterdam]].<br />
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Serry is married and has three children.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{cite web | title=Robert Serry on BBC HardTalk | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8055568.stm | date=18 May 2009 | publisher=[[BBC]] | accessdate=11 December 2014}}<br />
*{{cite web | title=Secretary-General appoints Robert H. Serry of Netherlands United Nations special co-ordinate for Middle East peace process | url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2007/sga1111.doc.htm | date=4 December 2007 | publisher=[[United Nations]] | accessdate=2 March 2020}}<br />
*{{cite web | title=Secretary-General names Robert Serry of the Netherlands as Middle East envoy | url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24847&Cr=middle&Cr1=east | date=29 November 2007 | publisher=[[United Nations]] | accessdate=11 December 2014}}<br />
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