Jean-Bernard Raimond
Jean -Bernard Raimond ( born February 6, 1926 in Paris ) is a French conservative politician who was in the government of Jacques Chirac and Foreign Minister from 1986 to 1988 was used from the 1970s to 1990s in several countries as an ambassador. He was a member of the National Assembly of 1993 to 2002.
Life and career
Raimond was born in February 1926 and attended the elite École Normale Supérieure, where he graduated in 1947, and the École nationale d'administration.
He has worked in a number of functions within the civil service. In 1967 he became a member of the bar of Maurice Couve de Murville, who was French Foreign Minister at that time and later in 1978 Louis de Guiringaud. He also held several posts as ambassador. From 1973 to 1977 he was ambassador to Morocco from 1982 to 1984 in Poland, from 1985 to 1986 in the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991 at the Vatican. Between his tenures as Ambassador, he was the Foreign Ministry worked, including as foreign minister from 1986 to 1988.
In 1993 he was elected as MP for the constituency of Bouches -du -Rhône to the city of Aix -en- Provence in the National Assembly, as a member of the neo- Gaullist Rassemblement pour la République (RPR ) and in 1997 re-elected for another term, which ended in 2002.
He is very active in the French-Moroccan relations and is a member of a number of bilateral friendship committees, participates in international symposia and wrote several books.
Honors
Raimond is winner of several French and foreign honors, including Officer of the Légion d' honneur, Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite, the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services to education, the Alaouite Ouissam and the Grand Cross of the Pontifical Order of Pius.
Bibliography
- Le Quai d' Orsay à l' épreuve de la cohabitation, Flammarion, 1989, ISBN 2-08-066426-3
- Le Choix de Gorbachev, Odile Jacob, 1992, ISBN 2-7381-0189-5
- Jean Paul II, un pape au cœur de l' histoire, Le Cherche Midi, 1999, ISBN 2-86274-999-0