Jan Eliasson

Jan Eliasson , born the September 17th 1940 with Gothenburg, is a Swedish, old diplomat president of the General meeting of the United Nations. The December 19th 2006, it was named Special correspondent of the General secretary for the crisis with the Darfur.

Biography

March 27th, 2006, Mr. Eliasson was appointed minister with the foreign affairs by Swedish the Prime Minister, Göran Persson, station which it preserved until the victory of center-droite at the legislative elections of September 17th, 2006. Mr. Eliasson has succeeds Laila Freivalds and it has in its turn succeeded by the conservative Carl Bildt.

Broken with the diplomacy and the foreign relations, Mr. Eliasson is Secretary of foreign affairs of 1994 to 2000, a key position to formulate and implement the Swedish foreign politics. From 1988 to 1992, he is ambassador of Sweden to UNO in New York. During this period, he is also the Staff representative of the General secretary for Iran/l' Iraq and President of the work group of the General meeting for the emergency helps (1991), Vice-Président of the Economic and Social Council (1991-1992) and President of the Funds of special assignment of the United Nations for South Africa (1988-1992).

In 1992, Mr. Eliasson is designated first general under-secretary with humanitarian associations. During the performance of this duty, it takes part in operations in Somalia, in the Sudan, in Mozambique and in the Balkans and also takes initiatives concerning the landmines, the prevention of the conflicts and the humanitarian action.

From 1980 to 1986, Mr. Eliasson belongs to the missions of mediation of UNO in the war between Iran and Iraq, directed by the former Prime Minister Olof Palme: it is besides at this period that it will make the discovery of the chemical weapons in Iraq. More recently, Mr. Eliasson acts as mediator in the conflict of Haut-Karabakh for the Organization of safety and the co-operation in Europe (SOEC) and is professor associated with the University with Uppsala in Sweden, giving conferences on the mediation, the payment of the conflicts and the reform of UNO.

With the wire of his diplomatic career, Mr. Eliasson is in station with New York (twice), with Paris, in Bonn, in Washington, D.C. (twice, the first in the Seventies, in full war of Vietnam) and in Harare, where it opens the first Swedish embassy in 1980. He is the diplomatic adviser of Swedish the Prime Minister of 1982 to 1983, and managing director of the political matters to the Swedish Ministry of the foreign affairs, of 1983 to 1987.

Mr. Eliasson is author and joint author of several books and articles. He frequently gives conferences on the foreign politics and the diplomacy. He received honorary doctorates of the American University (Washington, D.C.), Universities of Uppsala and Gothenburg (Sweden) and of Bethany College (Kansas). He was also decorated by several governments.

Born in Gothenburg (Sweden) in 1940, Mr. Eliasson studies one year in the United States of 1957 to 1958, within the framework of a programme of exchange of students, and receives his diploma of the Swedish naval Academy in 1962. He obtains a control in economy in 1965.

Mr. Eliasson, in the line of Palm, remains very attached to the foreign politics placing UNO as tallies determining international relations on the one hand, and with interdependent Sweden and internationalist.

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