Arnaud Danjean

Arnaud Danjean ( born February 11, 1971 in Louhans, Saone -et -Loire ) is a French politician of the conservative UMP party and Member of Parliament.

Career

After university degree at the Institut d' études politiques de Paris (Sciences - Po) in 1992 Danjean worked at the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure ( DGSE ), the French foreign intelligence service. From 1995 to 1996, he worked on various missions in Sarajevo, among other things, during the siege of Sarajevo and the signing of the Dayton Agreement. From June 1996 to September 1998 he was a member of the French Embassy in Sarajevo in order to observe the implementation of peace agreements, the security situation, the prosecution of war crimes and the existing Islamist networks.

From 1998 he was responsible for the Balkans at the headquarters of the French Ministry of Defence in Paris and participated in conferences on the Kosovo question. As of June 1999, he was even in Kosovo, where he worked with Bernard Kouchner, who was head of the UN Mission in Kosovo ( UNMIK) at this time. As of 2000 Danjean was back in Paris again, the same year he was awarded the Ordre national du Mérite.

From 2002 Danjean worked as a French Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. In 2004 he became an adviser to the French Foreign Ministry, first under Michel Barnier, then Philippe Douste-Blazy.

Political career

Here he became a member of the Group of the European People's Party (EPP ) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET). In addition, he was elected Chairman of the AFET Subcommittee on Security and Defence ( Sede ). As a member, he is also in the delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. Deputy is Danjean the Budget Committee and the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan