Editing Wolfgang Ischinger (section)

==Diplomatic career==
From 1973 to 1975, Ischinger served on the staff of the [[Secretary General of the United Nations]] in [[New York (state)|New York]]. He joined the German Foreign Service in 1975, and has served in [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Paris]], and in a number of senior functions in the German Foreign Office. In 1982, he became personal assistant to [[Hans-Dietrich Genscher]], West German foreign minister and leader of the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]].<ref name=politico-20220216>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/diplomacy-wolfgang-ischinger-munich-security-conference/ |title=In diplomacy, Europe's most powerful ambassador means business |last=Karnitschnig |first=Matthew |website=POLITICO |date=16 February 2022 |access-date=19 February 2022}}</ref>

From 1993 to 1995, Ischinger was director of the Policy Planning Staff under [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Germany)|Foreign Minister]] [[Klaus Kinkel]]; from 1995 to 1998, as director general for political affairs (political director), Ischinger participated in a number of international negotiating processes, including the Bosnia Peace Talks at [[Dayton, Ohio]], the negotiations concerning the [[NATO-Russia Founding Act]], as well as the negotiations on EU and [[NATO]] enlargement and on the [[Kosovo]] crisis.

As Staatssekretär (deputy foreign minister) under [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Germany)|Foreign Minister]] [[Joschka Fischer]] between 1998 and 2001, Ischinger represented Germany at numerous international and European conferences, including the 1999 [[25th G8 summit|G8]] and EU summit meetings in Cologne/Germany and the 2000 Review Conference of the [[Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]] (NPT) at the United Nations in New York.

In 2007, Ischinger was the European Union Representative in the [[Kosovo status process|Troika negotiations on the future of Kosovo]], which ended up leading to the [[declaration of independence of Kosovo]] and the [[recognition of Kosovo]] by most EU member countries, the United States, and a number of other countries, in February 2008. Reportedly, Ischinger entered the talks "with only one goal and idea: for Kosovo to become independent in the end, with the Serbian authority's willing consent".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2012&mm=06&dd=07&nav_id=80646|title=Former PM: I had no mandate to tear Serbia apart|website=B92.net|date=6 July 2012 |language=en|access-date=2020-03-14}}</ref>