Berne pool of broadcasting corporations Kouchner (* 1 November 1939 in Avignon) is a French politician and physician. He is joint founder of sans (MSF) and you moons (MDM).

Kouchner is a Gastroentrologe. It began its political career as a member of the communist party, from which it was excluded 1966. 1968 he worked as a physician for Secours fran§ais (SMF) in Biafra. 1971 it created the non-governmental organization sans which came out from the French Secours fran§ais. 1979 became on the occasion of the campaign a ship for Viet Nam from an international organization whose German section under the name admits physicians without borders is. Over it Kouchner with the director of MSF Claude Malhuret came into diversities of opinion and withdrew from MSF, in order to create 1980 the second relief organization you moons (MDM).

It occurred for a long-term concept of humanitarian interference. 1993 it created therefore the donation Fondation pour l' action humanitaire. Although it was not member of a political party, it successfully stood as a candidate 1994 on the list of Michel Rocard to the European parliament. 1995 it joined the Parti radical socialiste, its press speaker it became. At the same time it occurred for the reforms of the social security of the Gaullist Minister Alain It managed the club (reunification) and was close occasionally to Michel Rocard and Lionel Jospin.

From 1999 to 2001 the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan sent it as representing administrator in the Kosovo. Kouchner was personally friendly with the Brazilian UN-High Commissioner for human rights and diplomat Vieira de Mello.

At the beginning of the yearly 2003 he explained himself in agreement with the military intervention of the USA in the Iraq as global intervention against dictatorships. In the meantime he explains that attention to the people should be paid and they should be the only one, which could say to the war or no.

It published various publications, among them in co-operation with Pierre, the founder of the Emmausbewegung, the book "Dieu et les hommes" (= God and humans).

His brother Jean Kouchner is a director of the communist Paris Radiosenders TSF. In first marriage Berne pool of broadcasting corporations Kouchner was married with Pisier, which married the European delegate of the socialist and constitutionalist Olivier Duhamel after its divorce in the meantime. Kouchner is married in second marriage with the lady journalist Christine Ockrent.

Loi the Kouchner in such a way specified (Kouchner law), officially suspension de peine pour raison plans a request for detention suspension for prisoners, whose state of health is not compatible with the detention. The regulation led in particular by application in the case of the war criminal Maurice Papon to a public controversy.

Political personal record

• from 1988 to 1992 undersecretary of state
• from 1992 to 1993 Ministers for health and humanitarian affairs
• from 1994 to 1997 of delegates in the European parliament
• from 1997 to 1999 undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Health
• from 1999 to 2001 representing administrator of the United Nations in the Kosovo
• from 2001 to 2002 of delegates ministers of health

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