Ryszard Krystosik
Ryszard Krystosik was a Polish ambassador to Iraq in the years of 2004–2007.
Krystosik graduated from the Central School of Foreign Service. He was studying also at the Princeton University. In 1956, he began his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was serving in Vietnam, Laos, Washington, D.C., New York. He was the leader of the United States Interest Section at the Polish embassy in Baghdad, Iraq and in 1995 was involved in the effort to release Americans David Daliberti and Bill Barloon from Abu Ghraib prison there.
In 2010, he was honoured with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
