Mr. Jelko Kacin MEP

Mr. Kacin has been a member of the LDS council (1996), member of the Slovenian National Assembly (1996, 2000), and member of Kranj Municipal Council (1998, 2002). In 1996 Mr. Kacin chaired the Foreign Relations Committee and was a member of the Defence Committee and the Constitutional Commission. In 2000 Jelko chaired the Foreign Policy Committee and was a member of the Defence Committee and the European Affairs Commission. He was the Deputy Republican Defence Secretary in 1990 and the Republican Secretary/Minister for Information in 1991; in 1993 he became Defence Minister. In 2000 Jelko was a Member of the Slovenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, member of the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee and head of the national delegation to the IPU (2000). In 2003 Mr. Kacin was a member of the Convention on the Future of Europe.