BRATISLAVA, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Slovakia has appointed Milan Lajciak as its new ambassador to China and Mongolia, the Slovak Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday.

Lajciak, a seasoned diplomat and sinologist, will return to the Slovak embassy in Beijing for a third time. He was the founding ambassador there in 1993, according to the Foreign Ministry's communications department, as cited by the News Agency of the Slovak Republic.

Until this appointment, Lajciak had been serving as Slovakia's ambassador to Azerbaijan. Over the course of his diplomatic career, he has headed Slovak embassies in Indonesia, South Korea, and Malaysia, and served as a foreign policy adviser to the Slovak president. Enditem