Rangin Dadfar Spanta
Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Persian: رنگین دادفر سپنتا, ( born 1953 in Herat / Afghanistan ) is a German - Afghan political scientist who, from 2006 to 2010 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan.
Life
Career
Dadfar Spanta is the eldest son of a landowner in western Afghanistan. Ethnically is Dadfar Spanta Fars (Persia). At 15, he joined a Maoist party and studied in Kabul later. Even before the Soviet invasion (1979 ) he went in 1976 to Turkey, where he continued his studies. In 1980 he went back and joined for a year armed resistance to. In 1981 he went back to Turkey.
He was in the 1990s, a lecturer in political science at the RWTH Aachen. Since 2004 he was a scholarship from Germany lecturer at Kabul University and later foreign policy advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. His predecessor as foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah. His successor is Shalmai Rasul.
Germany
January 1982, he traveled to Germany, where he was granted political asylum as a refugee. He later studied political science at the RWTH Aachen and received his doctorate in 1992 with a grant from the scholarship department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. He was co-founder of the Democratic Council of Afghanistan and is a member of the Greens. In 1999 he stood as a candidate in elections to the city council of Aachen, but narrowly failed. By the end of 2004, he was a part-time researcher at the Institute for Political Science at the RWTH Aachen and employees in a local development education and lobbying organization (Third World Forum eV, now: A World Forum Aachen eV).
He speaks Persian as their first language, also German, Pashto, Turkish, and since taking office in English.
Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
On 22 March 2006 he was appointed Afghan Foreign Minister.
On 12 May 2007, the Afghan parliament revoked the trust until a second vote by a narrow but sufficient majority Dadfar Spanta. Analysts attribute the dismissal of Dadfar Spanta back to the political differences and said that his dismissal was not a spontaneous act of anger at the Iranian did not prevent mass deportation of Afghan refugees, but to conservative Pakistani and Iranian influences have prevailed.
President Karzai called the " Estere Mahkema " to ( the Supreme Court ), in order to examine the Verfassungmäßigkeit of this verdict, and the legality of the arrangements for the no-confidence vote by the highest court in the land. Until this decision Dadfar Spanta should - legally controversial - remain in office. It was decided that the vote was unconstitutional. On 22 May 2007 he met in Kabul still together with the then German Foreign Minister Frank- Walter Steinmeier. The end of 2009, he met yet with the new Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle in Kabul.
On 18 January 2010 he finished his work as Foreign Minister.
Personal
Rangin Dadfar Spanta is married and the father of two grown children. His wife and brothers continue to live in Aachen. In addition to the Afghan citizenship he also has the German nationality.
Publications
- Afghanistan: Development of underdevelopment, war and resistance. Aachen contributions to comparative sociology and research on China Vol 11, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 1993, ISBN 3-631-46068-6