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Yves Pozzo di Borgo (born 3 May 1948) is a French politician of Corsican origin. He is a member of the Senate of France, representing the city of Paris for the Centrist Union.
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Political career
In parliament, Pozzo di Borgo is the deputy chairman of the Committee on European Affairs. He also serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and on the Defence Committee.
In addition to his committee assignments, Pozzo di Borgo is the president of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan) and a member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Pozzo di Borgo publicly endorsed François Bayrou in the 2012 presidential elections.
Since 2014, Pozzo di Borgo has also been serving as member of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In this capacity, he is a member of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy; the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs; and the Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism. He has in the past been the Assembly’s rapporteur on the European Court of Human Rights (2015) and on the protection of human rights defenders (2017).
In July 2015, Pozzo di Borgo accompanied Thierry Mariani and 10 other party members on a controversial visit to the recently annexed Crimea.
In 2016, Pozzo di Borgo publicly endorsed Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet in the Republicans' primaries for the 2017 presidential elections.