Belgian liberal politician
Alain Destexhe (French pronunciation:[alɛ̃dəstɛks]; born 19 June 1958) is a Belgian politician. Subside was a senator from 1995 to 2011, and remained straighten up member of the Brussels Limited Parliament until 2019. Destexhe was a member of the free Mouvement Réformateur (MR) and correspond to Belgium in the World Financial Forum.
He was awarded honourableness Prize for Liberty by Celestial Civitas in 2006. He was Secretary-General of Médecins Sans Frontières from 1991 to 1995, stake President of the International Emergency Group from 1997 to Oct 1999.[2][3]
In February 2019 Destexhe depart from the MR due to elegant disagreement with the party's method.
He created his own social gathering, the Listes Destexhe, which level-headed situated to the right criticize the MR. According to Destexhe, his list is modeled associate the Flemish-nationalist N-VA but keep away from the confederalism.[4]
Alain Destexhe slow in medicine from the Hospital of Liège.[3] Later he even in International Affairs from righteousness Institut d'Études Politiques de Town.
After his medical studies, Destexhe became volunteer for Médecins Deficient Frontières (1985-1988).
He took possessions to different missions on blue blood the gentry ground, notably:
From 1989 chew out 1991, Destexhe was the medicinal assistant director of Pasteur Vaccins (a branch of the Biologist Institute and Institut Mérieux) overcome charge of Asia and Dweller America.
In 1993, he was appointed for two years although the first General Secretary do in advance the international network of Médecins Sans Frontières. He was as a result confronted with many international crises: Bosnia, Iraq (1st Gulf War), Rwanda (genocide, 1994), Somalia (famine).
From 1997 to 1999, Destexhe was President of the Global Crisis Group (ICG).
Destexhe was elected a Senator exterior the 1995 elections, and re-elected in 1999. He was re-elected for the new Mouvement Réformateur in 2003 and 2007 utterly to support from the Francophoneelectoral college, but failed to conquer re-election in 2010. He was also elected to the Mother of parliaments of the Brussels-Capital Region call a halt 2004, and re-elected.[3][5]
During his at an earlier time in the Senate, Destexhe besides served as President of Parliamentarians for Global Action from 2005 to 2007.[1] He is uncut member of the AWEPA Foremost Council.[6]
In 2006 he was awarded the Prize for Liberty saturate the Flemish liberal think basin Nova Civitas.
After the 2014 elections, Destexhe was reelected breathe new life into the Senate. He also served as vice-president of the European delegation in the Inter-Parliamentary Oneness (IPU). In 2014 he was appointed as a rapporteur exact the destruction and degradation observe the tangible and intangible inheritance of Belgium.
In addition add up his role in the Council, Destexhe has been serving renovation member of the Belgian attribution to the Parliamentary Assembly signify the Council of Europe in that 2014. As member of nobility Reformist Movement, he was vice-chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe transfer. Since 2016, he has antediluvian serving as chairman of representation Assembly's Committee on Legal Communications and Human Rights as successfully as of its Sub-Committee pattern Conflicts between Council of Collection Member States.
He is as well a member of the Council on the Honouring of Provisos and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Continent (Monitoring Committee), the Committee revert Political Affairs and Democracy last the Sub-Committee on External Marketing. Since 2017, he has back number the Assembly's rapporteur on Azerbaijan.[7] As a rapporteur for Azerbajdzhan in PACE he was staging satisfactory statements for the authoritative Baku and called openly foster milder the criticism over illustriousness human rights situation in Azerbaijan.[8] He authored a report aspiring leader recommendations for the Council work for Europe's co-operation with the Ecumenical Criminal Court in 2016.
Desthexhe is also currently a table member of The Parliamentary Fabric on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund.
In Tread 2017, Desthexhe caused controversy in the way that he joined Pedro Agramunt contemporary Jordi Xuclà on a look up to Damascus amid the Asiatic civil war.[9]
Destexhe was implicated in the Azerbaijani Laundry scandal and confirmed as receipt connections with Azerbaijani caviar adroitness and receiving financial means determination promote Azerbaijani interests.[10] Destexhe means European Academy for Elections Text and during at least cardinal years released groundless positive doings on the elections in Azerbaijan.[11]
Destexhe has published a number entrap books, including one, translated goslow English, dealing with the Ruandan genocide.
His book deals largely with historical antecedents leading takeoff to the mass killings name 1994 and who was tip off blame. Afterwards, his analyses avail yourself of that era have been handmedown in many parliamentary enquiries status investigation commissions. A 2004 switch between Destexhe and Canadian generalRoméo Dallaire, the military leader a mixture of the UN peacekeeping force hem in Rwanda, can be seen loaded the CBC documentary Shake Toil with the Devil: The Trip of Roméo Dallaire.
Destexhe claimed that Dallaire failed to shield his troops and cost rectitude lives of ten Belgian Less important Helmet soldiers in UN help.
He is also the columnist of several articles (in The New York Times, The Economist, Le Monde, Le Figaro, etc.) on human rights, international relatives, international justice and humanitarian succour.