Jelko Kacin is a Slovenian politician

Politics of Slovenia

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 and Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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. During the Slovenian Independence War he was the Secretary of Information of Slovenia. He founded the Slovenian Press Agency

Slovenian Press Agency

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 on 3 June 1991 and the war (also called the Ten-Day War) started on 27 June 1991. He is the former president of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia

Liberal Democracy of Slovenia

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 and member of the bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

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, and sits on the European Parliament

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's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, vice-chair of the delegation to the EU

European Union

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–Moldova

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 Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, a substitute for the delegation to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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–EU Joint Parliamentary Committee, and for the delegations for relations with Iran

Iran

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, the Korean Peninsula

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, and the countries of south-east Europe.

Career

• 1980: Defence studies graduate, University of Ljubljana
  University of Ljubljana
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• 1980: Trainee in the Municipality of Kranj
  Kranj
  ' is the third largest municipality and fourth largest city in Slovenia, with a population of 54,500 . It is located approximately 20 km north-west of Ljubljana...
  
  
• 1981: Adviser on defence preparations in the Municipality of Kranj
• 1984: Adviser on defence training in the Municipality of Kranj
• 1988: Head of the municipal civil protection unit
• 1990: Deputy Republican Defence Secretary
• 1991: Republican Secretary/Minister for Information
• 1993: Defence Minister
• 1993: Marketing division, Adria Karavan, Novo mesto
• 1996: Member of the LDS council
• 1996: Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee
• 1996: Member of the Defence Committee and the Constitutional Commission
• 2000: Member of the Slovenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  Council of Europe
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• 2000: Member of the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee
• 2000: Head of the national delegation to the IPU
• 2000: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia
• 2000: Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee
• 2000: Member of the Defence Committee and the European Affairs Commission
• 2002: Member of Kranj Municipal Council (1998)
• 2003: Observer in the European Parliament
• 2003: Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe
• 2003: Chairman of the LDS regional committee for Gorenjska
• 2003: Chairman of the Kranj committee of the LDS
• 2004: Member of the ALDE Bureau
• 2005: President of LDS

External links

• Official website