Jelko Kacin

Jelko Kacin (born 26 November 1955 in Celje, Lower Styria, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament. During the Slovenian Independence War he was the Secretary of Information of Slovenia. He founded the Slovenian Press Agency 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 and member of the bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, who sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Contents

• Jelko Kacin on Slovenian Presidency
• Slovenian mep jelko kacin about the former yugoslav republic of macedonia
• Career
• References

He was also a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, vice-chair of the delegation to the EU–Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, a substitute for the delegation to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia–EU Joint Parliamentary Committee, and for the delegations for relations with Iran, the Korean Peninsula, and the countries of south-east Europe.

Career

1980: Defence studies graduate, University of Ljubljana

1980: Trainee in the Municipality of Kranj

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

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