Danilo T%C3%BCrk

Danilo Trk is a Slovenian diplomat, professor of international law, human rights expert, and political figure who served as the President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012. Trk was the first Slovene ambassador to the United Nations, from 1992 to 2000, and was the UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs from 2000 to 2005.

Trk was born in a lowermiddleclass family in Maribor, Slovenia . He attended Maribor Grammar School No.. In 1971 he enrolled at the University of Ljubljana, where he studied law. After graduation he served as the secretary of the commission for minority and expatriate affairs at the Socialist Alliance of Working People , an organisation sponsored by Yugoslav Communist Party. In December 1979 he became the chairman of that commission and a member of the executive committee of the SZDL. At the same time he continued his studies. He obtained an MA with a thesis on minority rights from the University of Belgrades Law School. In 1978, he became a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. In 1982, he obtained his PhD with a dissertation on the principle of nonintervention in international law at the University in Ljubljana and received a fulltime job as an assistant professor at the University in Ljubljanas Faculty of Law. In 1983, he became the director of the University of

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