Rangin Dadfar Spanta
| رنگین دادفر سپنتا Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta |
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Dr. Spanta as Senior Advisor to the President for International Affairs at the 46th Munich Security Conference in Germany (2010)
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| Foreign Minister of Afghanistan | |
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In office April 20, 2006 – January 18, 2010 |
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| President | Hamid Karzai |
| Preceded by | Abdullah Abdullah |
| Succeeded by | Zalmai Rassoul |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 15, 1954 Karukh District, Herat Province, Afghanistan |
| Nationality |
Afghan German |
| Alma mater |
Kabul University Ankara University Tehran University |
Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta (born December 15, 1954) is a politician in Afghanistan who last served as National Security Advisor of President Hamid Karzai. Prior to that he served as Foreign Minister from April 2006 to January 2010.
He was appointed to that position by President 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. On January 18, 2010 Zalmai Rassoul became the Foreign Minister of Afghanistan.
Spanta was born on 15 December 1954 in Herat Province, where he completed his primary and secondary education. It has been reported that he belongs to the Pashtun group. Spanta is fluent in Dari, Pashto, Turkish, German and English.
Spanta was an ex-patriate for many years as he fled during the Soviet war in Afghanistan to Turkey where he received his master degree from Faculty of Political Science of Ankara University. Some years later, he moved to Germany claiming to be a refugee in 1982. In Germany he became 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, was active in the local section of the German Green Party and being employed by a local NGO "Eine Welt Forum Aachen e.V.". During his visits to Afghanistan, upon the fall of the Taliban, he taught briefly at the Kabul University while still being resident in Germany. He returned in January 2005 and served as advisor of internationally affairs to Hamid Karzai.
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