ENG - Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta (born 1954 in Herat) is the foreign minister of Afghanistan.
He was appointed to that position by Hamid Karzai during a cabinet reshuffle on March 21, 2006 and approved by the 249-seat lower house on April 20, 2006. He was previously the Senior Advisor on International Affairs to President Hamid Karzai.
Spanta was an ex-patriate for many years as he fled during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. During his exile, he was a scholar and assistant professor of political science at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, at which time he also served as spokesperson for the Alliance for Democracy in Afghanistan, and was active in the German Green Party. Upon his return to Afghanistan, upon the fall of the Taliban, he taught briefly at the Kabul University.
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Azerbaijan, Baku, 2 December /Trend News corr. D.Khatinoglu/ Official Kabul condemns genocide in world’s any spot. “ Afghanistan is against genocide in any spot in the world,” Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta said in an exclusive interview to Trend News. Afghanistan supports the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Dadfar said on 2 December. The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since 1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan including the ...
alexasa - in poll Rangin Dadfar Spanta Международная конференция, посвященная проблемам афганских беженцев, новым вызовам и угрозам, стоящим на пути их возвращения на родину, открылась в среду в Кабуле. В форуме принимают участие делегации из более чем 30 государств, в том числе Пакистана и Ирана, лично верховный комиссар ООН по делам беженцев Антонио Гуттериш, ...
alexasa - in poll Rangin Dadfar Spanta
