Rangin Dadfar Spanta

Rangin Dadfar Spanta (2006)

Rangin Dadfar Spanta , Persian :رنگین دادفر سپنتا, (* 1953 in Herat / Afghanistan ) is a German-Afghan political scientist and was Afghan Foreign Minister from 2006 to 2010 .

Life

Career

Dadfar Spanta is the eldest son of a large landowner in western Afghanistan. Ethnically speaking, Dadfar Spanta is Pashtun . At the age of 15 he joined a Maoist party and later studied in Kabul. Even before the Soviet intervention (1979) he went to Turkey in 1976, where he continued his studies. In 1980 he went back and joined the armed resistance for a year. In 1981 he went back to Turkey.

In the 1990s he was a lecturer in political science at RWTH Aachen University . Since 2004 he has been a lecturer at the University of Kabul with a grant from Germany and later foreign policy advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai . His predecessor as Foreign Minister was Abdullah Abdullah , his successor was Zalmay Rassoul .

Germany

In January 1982 he traveled to Germany, where he received political asylum as a refugee. He later studied political science at RWTH Aachen University and obtained his doctorate in 1992 with a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation's study program . He was a co-founder of the Democratic Council of Afghanistan and is a member of the Greens . In 1999 he ran for election to the Aachen city council, but narrowly failed. Until the end of 2004 he was a part-time research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at RWTH Aachen University and a member of a local development policy education and lobby organization (Third World Forum eV, now: Eine Welt Forum Aachen eV).

He speaks Pashto as his mother tongue, as well as German , Persian , Turkish and, since taking office, English .

Foreign Minister in Afghanistan

On March 22, 2006, he was appointed Afghan Foreign Minister.

On May 12, 2007, the Afghan parliament only withdrew its confidence in Dadfar Spanta after a second vote with a narrow but sufficient majority. Analysts attribute the dismissal of Dadfar Spanta to political differences and said that his dismissal was not a spontaneous act of annoyance at the Iranian mass deportation of Afghan refugees, which was not prevented, but that conservative Pakistani and Iranian influences have prevailed.

President Karzai called the Supreme Court ( Estere Mahkema ) to have the country's highest court review the constitutionality of this vote and the legality of the modalities of the no-confidence vote. Until this decision is reached, Dadfar Spanta - legally controversial - should remain in office. It was decided that the vote was unconstitutional. On May 22, 2007, he met the then German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Kabul , and at the end of 2009 a meeting with the new Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle took place in Kabul.

On January 18, 2010, he ended his duties as Foreign Minister.

Personal

Rangin Dadfar Spanta is married and has two grown children. His wife and brothers continue to live in Aachen. In addition to being an Afghan citizen , he is also a German citizen .

Publications

Afghanistan: Origin of Underdevelopment, War and Resistance . Aachen contributions to comparative sociology and China research vol. 11., Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe, 1993, ISBN 3-631-46068-6

Web links

Commons : Rangin Dadfar Spanta - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by Rangin Dadfar Spanta in the catalog of the German National Library
“Living in exile means living and thinking between two cultures.” Dadfar Spanta talks about his experiences with migration. Migration audio archive
Barbara Unmüßig congratulates Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta on his appointment ( memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Press release of the Heinrich Böll Foundation , April 20, 2006 (with a short curriculum vitae)
Elections as a milestone for Afghan democracy. Interview with Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Qantara.de 2009

Individual evidence

↑ Kenneth Katzman: Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance , Congressional Research Service . February 10, 2011. Archived from the original on October 15, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2012. “There is a National Security Council that is located in the presidential palace complex and heavily populated by ethnic Pashtuns. As of February 2010, it has been headed by former Foreign Minister Rangin Spanta, a Pashtun who was in the government during the Soviet occupation era and is said to retain leftwing views. Two other trusted NSC officials (both Pashtuns) are first deputy NSC Adviser Ibrahim Spinzada (a Karzai brother-in-law), and Shaida Mohammad Abdali, the second deputy NSC Adviser. "
^ Profiles: Rangin Dadfar Spanta. Zmong blog, April 4, 2007 ( Memento from September 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
↑ Marion R. Mueller: "Hit two targets with a stone's throw". Report on the motion of censure against Spanta on May 15, 2007. Heinrich Böll Foundation, August 8, 2008.

personal data
SURNAME	Dadfar Spanta, Rangin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Afghan political scientist and former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
DATE OF BIRTH	1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herat

[Crs2011-02-10-1] Kenneth Katzman: Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance , Congressional Research Service . February 10, 2011. Archived from the original on October 15, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2012. “There is a National Security Council that is located in the presidential palace complex and heavily populated by ethnic Pashtuns. As of February 2010, it has been headed by former Foreign Minister Rangin Spanta, a Pashtun who was in the government during the Soviet occupation era and is said to retain leftwing views. Two other trusted NSC officials (both Pashtuns) are first deputy NSC Adviser Ibrahim Spinzada (a Karzai brother-in-law), and Shaida Mohammad Abdali, the second deputy NSC Adviser. "

[spanta-2] Profiles: Rangin Dadfar Spanta. Zmong blog, April 4, 2007 ( Memento from September 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).

[3] Marion R. Mueller: "Hit two targets with a stone's throw". Report on the motion of censure against Spanta on May 15, 2007. Heinrich Böll Foundation, August 8, 2008.