Peter Semneby

Peter Semneby was EUSR for the South Caucasus until February 2011. He is a member of the Swedish Foreign Service. Previously he was as Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia between 2002 and 2005 and Head of the OSCE Mission to Latvia between 2000 and 2002.
In Croatia, Ambassador Semneby and his staff assisted Croatia in post-conflict rehabilitation and the handling of the most important political requirements for EU membership: refugee return, minority rights, judicial reform, war crimes trials, police reform, media legislation, electoral legislation and civil society development. His work in Latvia focused on citizenship and language issues. He has been responsible for the Common Security and Defense Policy in the Swedish Foreign Ministry and has also served in the Swedish embassies in Germany, Ukraine and the USSR.
