Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz

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Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz

In office
7 February 1996 – 31 October 1997
Preceded by Józef Oleksy
Succeeded by Jerzy Buzek

Born 13 September 1950
Śmiłowice, Poland
Political party Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz pronunciation  (born September 13, 1950 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish politician from the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance, the Prime Minister of Poland from 1996 to autumn 1997, the Foreign Minister of Poland in the governments of Leszek Miller (2001-2004) and Marek Belka (2004-2005), the speaker of the Sejm (lower chamber of the Polish parliament) in January - October 2005 and the communist candidate in the Polish presidential election of 1990 (received 9% of the votes) and of 2005 (withdrew before the elections and promised to abandon politics).

Along with Leszek Miller, he signed the Accession Treaty that paved way to Polish membership in the European Union.

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Preceded by:
Józef Oleksy
Prime Minister of Poland
1996–1997
Succeeded by:
Jerzy Buzek
Preceded by:
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
Minister of Foreign Affairs
2001–2005
Succeeded by:
Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Preceded by:
Józef Oleksy
Sejm Marshal
2005
Succeeded by:
Marek Jurek