- Iztok Jarc
Iztok Jarc (born
21 August 1963 ) is aSlovenia ndiplomat andpolitician , since2007 Minister of Agriculture ofSlovenia .Early life and career
Jarc was born in the town of
Novo Mesto , but spent most of his youth in the nearbyLower Carniola n village ofPrečna , where his parents worked aspeasants . He frequented grammar school in Novo Mesto, enrolling to theUniversity of Ljubljana in 1982. He studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences graduating frominternational relations in 1987.In 1989 Jarc got employed at the Secretariat for International Collaboration of the
Socialist Republic of Slovenia . After the victory of theDEMOS coalition on the first democratic elections in Slovenia in April 1990,Dimitrij Rupel became head of the secretariat, gradually transforming it into aministry of foreign affairs of Slovenia which was starting its process ofsecession fromYugoslavia . Jarc had an important role in this process which ended in the international recognition of Slovenian independence in 1992. In 1993, Jarc shortly moved toBrussels and got employed as an advisor to theEuropean Commission , in the General Directorate for the Policy on Small and Medium Enterprises. At the end of the same year he got employed as an expert on the Slovenian Ministry for Economic Relations and Development.In 1996, Jarc became the chief advisor for economic issues in the Slovenian Mission at the
European Union in Brussels, where he remained until 2000, when he became the chairman of the Sector for European Integration and Economic Relations in the Slovenian Foreign Ministry. The same year, he was named by the Slovenian governemnt led byAndrej Bajuk as member of the negotiation group for Slovenian entry in the European Union. In 2001, he was named Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture, which he remained until 2004, when he became the Slovenianambassador toIsrael .In 2007, after the resignation of Minister of Agriculture
Marija Lukačič , Jarc was named as the new Minister of Agriculture of Slovenia in the cabinet led byJanez Janša .Jarc is an active member of the
Slovenian Democratic Party .See also
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Foreign relations of Slovenia
*Politics of Slovenia References
* [http://www.mkgp.gov.si/nc/si/splosno/cns/novica/article/12541/5306/ Biography on the Slovenian Government webpage]
* [http://24ur.com/novice/slovenija/kdo-je-iztok-jarc.html Profile of Iztok Jarc on the webportal 24ur.com]
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