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Jelko Kacin

Jelko Kacin (born 26 November 1955) is a Slovenian politician.

During the Slovenian Independence War, he was the Secretary of Information of Slovenia. He founded the Slovenian Press Agency on 3 June 1991 and the war (also called the Ten-Day War) started on 27 June 1991. He is the former president of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia and member of the bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, who sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

A former Member of the European Parliament, Kacin was also a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, vice-chair of the delegation to the EU–Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, a substitute for the delegation to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia–EU Joint Parliamentary Committee, and for the delegations for relations with Iran, the Korean Peninsula, and the countries of south-east Europe.

Career

Political offices Preceded byStane Stanič Secretary of Information 24 April 1991–25 January 1993 Succeeded byOffice abolished Preceded byJanez Janša Minister of Defence 24 March 1994–27 February 1997 Succeeded byTit Turnšek Party political offices Preceded byAnton Rop President of the LDS 15 October 2005–30 June 2007 Succeeded byKatarina Kresal

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