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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 24, 2005 -  Contact: Joseph Giomboni King’s College Public Relations Office, (570) 208-5957.

COUNSUL GENERAL OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

TO SPEAK AT KING'S, OCTOBER 26

October 24, 2005 – As part of King’s College Ethnic Communities Outreach, the First Catholic Slovak Ladies Association and the Slovak Heritage Society will host a Slovak history lecture by Ivan Surkos, Consul General of the Slovak Republic. The lecture “Slovakia since the fall of Communism” will take place at King’s College on Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. in the Burke Auditorium of the William G. McGowan School of Business on North River Street.
 
Prior to his current appointment, Surkos has held diplomatic posts in Yemen, Iraq and Tunisia. He was the United Nations Department Director at the Foreign Ministry until his inauguration in Dec. 2003 as Consulate. Surkos specialized in Middle East and Arabic studies, having a degree from the Law Faculty of Commenius University in Bratislava and studying at the Institute of International Relations in Moscow.
 
Surkos’ lecture is free and open to the public. The Ethnic Communities Outreach program at King’s College was launched in mid-2002 to explore, recognize and celebrate the role of ethnic communities and their voluntary organizations in Northeastern Pennsylvania. For more information, please contact Rev. Patrick Sullivan, C.S.C., Ph. D, coordinator of the Ethnic Communities Outreach, at (570) 208-5816.

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