Austrian NATO peacekeeping EUFOR troops stop as they patrol in downtown Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday March 7, 2022. For some European countries watching Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine, there are fears that they could be next. Western officials say the most vulnerable could be those who are not members of the NATO military alliance or the European Union, and thus alone and unprotected including Ukraine’s neighbor Moldova and Russia’s neighbor Georgia, both of them formerly part of the Soviet Union along with the Balkan states of Bosnia and Kosovo. (AP Photo/Armin Dorgut)
Koldkrigeren Bertel Haarder og den såkaldte forsker, Christine Nissen, fra DIIS, fylder os med løgn om forsvarsforbeholdet.
JA-siden henviser ideligt med beklagelse til, at forsvarsforbeholdet forhindrede deltagelse i EU’s mission i Bosnien.
Fakta er, at i krigsårene 1991-2001 blev der i alt udsendt 18.514 danskere til Balkan, og senere blev 20.254 danskere udsendt som fredsbevarende styrker i perioden 1999 til 2009. Fra 2001 til i dag har flere end 13.000 danske soldater været udsendt til Kosovo. I alt er 12 danske soldater blevet dræbt på Balkan, og 35 er blevet såret.
Danmark var i løbet af 1990’erne det land, der forholdsmæssigt udsendte flest til de internationale styrker, som forsøgte at bremse de omsiggribende konflikter på Balkan. Danmark var også det første land, der satte kampvogne ind i området, og i april 1994 skabte den såkaldte Operation Bøllebank – hvor danske kampvogne efter et bagholdsangreb gik til modangreb og uskadeliggjorde den serbiske stilling.
Der skal også mindes om, at Danmark i 1999 deltog i NATO-bombardementerne af Serbien for at beskytte den albanske befolkning i den serbiske provins Kosovo.
2012 - Independent Professional
2003 - 2012 Minister Counsellor FAO at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark, Rome
2000 - 2003 Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Denmark
1995 - 2000 Director General, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Denmark
1991 - 1995 Permanent Secretary of State, Ministry of Energy Denmark
1990 - 1991 Chef du Cabinet, Prime Ministers Office Denmark
1983 - 1990 Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister, Prime Ministers Office Denmark
1979 - 1983 Head of section, Prime Ministers Office Denmark
1978 - 1979 Military Service, Representative of drafted army personel
1976 - 1978 National Bureau of Statstics Denmark
- Chair EU Working Party on FAO Coordination
- Chair of various Intra Ministerial Committees on Energy taxation
- Member of FAO Finance Committee
- Danish Representative to various missions to Eastern European countries, Burundi, Mozambique, Thailand and Cambodia.
- Head of Danish Negotiation Team for the Voluntary Guidelines to support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security
- Head of Danish Negotiation Team for the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
- Responsible for Danish EU Presidency 1993, 2002 and 2012 regarding FAO matters.
- Head of Danish delegations to meetings in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- Co-Chair of Budget Committee of the International treaty on Plant genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- Co-Chair of Danish-India Commission on Bilateral Energy Cooperation
Head of Danish delegations to meeting in International Energy Cooperation (IEA, CEM, MEF ect)
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