Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
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Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
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| In office October 26, 1993 – March 1, 1995 |
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| President | Lech Wałęsa |
| Prime Minister | Waldemar Pawlak |
| Preceded by | Jan Piątkowski |
| Succeeded by | Jerzy Jaskiernia |
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| In office 7 February 1996 – 31 October 1997 |
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| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Vice PM | Roman Jagieliński, Grzegorz Kołodko, Mirosław Pietrewicz, Jarosław Kalinowski |
| Preceded by | Józef Oleksy |
| Succeeded by | Jerzy Buzek |
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| In office October 19, 2001 – January 5, 2005 |
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| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Prime Minister | Leszek Miller, Marek Belka |
| Preceded by | Władysław Bartoszewski |
| Succeeded by | Adam Daniel Rotfeld |
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| In office January 5, 2005 – October 18, 2005 |
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| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Prime Minister | Marek Belka |
| Preceded by | Józef Oleksy |
| Succeeded by | Marek Jurek |
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| Born | September 13, 1950 Warsaw, People's Republic of Poland |
| Political party | Democratic Left Alliance |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Atheist |
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (pronounced [vwɔˈdʑimʲɛʃ tɕimɔˈʃɛvʲitʃ], born September 13, 1950 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish politician. He was a member of 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 leftist 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.
Cimoszewicz returned to politics during 2007 parliamentary election, when he won Senate seat as an independent candidate.
[edit] Collaboration with secret communist service
According to Institute of National Remembrance catalogue Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz was operational contact code name Carex of Department I MSW (intelligence) since September 26, 1980 to August 23, 1984.[citation needed]
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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 |
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