František Lipka (1946) is a Slovak linguist, translator and diplomat. Since the end of the 1980s, he has been active in diplomacy. He served as an ambassador of Czechoslovakia to the former Yugoslavia and ambassador of Slovakia to France, UNESCO, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Montenegro. In 2006 Lipka became the Referendum Commission President (Chairman of the Electoral Commission) for the upcoming Montenegrin Independence Referendum and was in charge of supervision over the course of the referendum, its results and a safeguard of the adherence to correct and valid election processes.
František Lipka (1946) slovački je lingvista, prevodilac i diplomata. Od kraja 1980-ih godina se bavi diplomatijom. Obavljao je funkciju ambasadora Čehoslovačke u bivšoj Jugoslaviji i ambasadora Slovačke u Francuskoj, Unesku, Belgiji, Luksemburgu i Crnoj Gori. 2006. godine, Lipka je postao predśednik Republičke referendumske komisije (predśednik Izborne komisije) za predstojeći referendum o nezavisnosti Crne Gore i bio je odgovoran za nadzor toka referenduma, njegovih rezultata i obezbjeđivanje poštovanja ispravnih i važećih izbornih procesa.