Vincent Cochetel

Vincent Cochetel has been a French member of the United Nations Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) since 1986 .

Life

Cochetel received his legal training in Tours and Paris .

As head of the same UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), he was kidnapped on January 29, 1998 in North Ossetia in Vladikavkaz . The kidnapping lasted 317 days until he was liberated by Russian Spetsnaz on December 12, 1998, in which three hostage-takers were shot. Cochetel was then interviewed in Refugees Magazine (No. 114, 1999).

After his release he continued to work for the UNHCR. First in Geneva and then from 2005 as Deputy Director of the Department of International Protection Services and Head of the Resettlement Service before becoming UNHCR Regional Ambassador for the United States and the Caribbean.

During the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 onwards , he acted as refugee coordinator for the UNHCR and has since been the special representative of the UN refugee agency responsible for the Mediterranean region .

Web links

Biography Vincent Cochetel. Organization of American States, October 13, 2011, accessed April 10, 2015 (PDF, 88 kB).
Vincent Cochetel arrives in Geneva UNHCR press release of December 12, 1998
Statement by Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR Europe Bureau Director, on new boat arrival in Italy UNHCR press release of January 2, 2015

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.oas.org/dil/refugees_3_course_biographies_Vincent_Cochetel.pdf
↑ http://www.liberation.fr/monde/1998/12/14/tchetchenie-vincent-cochetel-le-miraculeenleve-en-janvier-le-francais-a-ete-libere-par-les-russes-sa_255926
↑ Hans Krech, Steffen Noack: The second Chechen War (1999-2002) . A manual. Publishing house Dr. Köster, 2002. ISBN 978-3-895-74480-8 (p. 35)
↑ "Why did I survive and other hostages didn't?", Quoted in: Emma Gilligan: Terror in Chechnya . Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War. Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-400-83176-0
↑ Steffen Lüdke, DER SPIEGEL: UN Commissioner for Refugees on Libya: “Is there a red line for Europe at all?” - DER SPIEGEL - Politics. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Cochetel, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French UN refugee aid worker
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] ttp://www.oas.org/dil/refugees_3_course_biographies_Vincent_Cochetel.pdf

[2] ttp://www.liberation.fr/monde/1998/12/14/tchetchenie-vincent-cochetel-le-miraculeenleve-en-janvier-le-francais-a-ete-libere-par-les-russes-sa_255926

[3] Hans Krech, Steffen Noack: The second Chechen War (1999-2002) . A manual. Publishing house Dr. Köster, 2002. ISBN 978-3-895-74480-8 (p. 35)

[4] "Why did I survive and other hostages didn't?", Quoted in: Emma Gilligan: Terror in Chechnya . Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War. Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-400-83176-0

[5] Steffen Lüdke, DER SPIEGEL: UN Commissioner for Refugees on Libya: “Is there a red line for Europe at all?” - DER SPIEGEL - Politics. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .