Bertrand Dufourcq

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Bertrand Dufourcq (born July 5, 1933 in Paris , † November 18, 2019 in Paris) was a French diplomat .

Life

From 1985 to 1988 Dufourcq was French Ambassador to the Holy See . This was followed by a job as a diplomat at the French Embassy in Moscow in the Soviet Union . In 1990, Bertrand Dufourcq took part in the two-plus-four negotiations as political head of the French Foreign Ministry . After that he was ambassador to Moscow.

Dufourcq was the French ambassador to Germany from May 18, 1992. However, his successor François Scheer took over the office on November 24, 1993. In the 1990s, Dufourcq was Secretary General in the French Foreign Ministry. In this capacity, he visited Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on March 3, 1998 on behalf of French President Jacques Chirac .

Individual evidence

  1. Hommage à Bertrand Dufourcq, un homme de cœur. November 20, 2019, accessed November 24, 2019 (French).
  2. The diplomatic corps at the Holy See on apostolische-nachstieg.de ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apostolische-nachstieg.de
  3. Gina Thomas, The Minister received in pajamas in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on October 19, 2009
  4. Annual report 2010 on www.maxweberstiftung.de , page 98 (PDF; 4.2 MB)
  5. Ambassador to Germany since 1955 on de.ambafrance.org
  6. UNO threatens Iraq with serious consequences in the daily newspaper of March 4, 1998