Jelko Kacin (born 26 November 1955) is a Slovenian politician.
During the Slovenian Independence War, he was the Secretary of Information of Slovenia. He founded the Slovenian Press Agency on 3 June 1991 and the war (also called the Ten-Day War) started on 27 June 1991. He is the former president of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia and member of the bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, who sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
A former Member of the European Parliament, Kacin was also a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, vice-chair of the delegation to the EU–Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, a substitute for the delegation to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia–EU Joint Parliamentary Committee, and for the delegations for relations with Iran, the Korean Peninsula, and the countries of south-east Europe.
Career
1980: Defence studies graduate, University of Ljubljana
1980: Trainee in the Municipality of Kranj
1981: Adviser on defence preparations in the Municipality of Kranj
1984: Adviser on defence training in the Municipality of Kranj
1988: Head of the municipal civil protection unit
1990: Deputy Republican Defence Secretary
1991: Republican Secretary/Minister for Information
1993: Defence Minister
1993: Marketing division, Adria Karavan, Novo mesto
1996: Member of the LDS council
1996: Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee
1996: Member of the Defence Committee and the Constitutional Commission
2000: Member of the Slovenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2000: Member of the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee 2000: Head of the national delegation to the IPU 2000: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia 2000: Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee 2000: Member of the Defence Committee and the European Affairs Commission 2002: Member of Kranj Municipal Council (1998) 2003: Observer in the European Parliament 2003: Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe 2003: Chairman of the LDS regional committee for Gorenjska 2003: Chairman of the Kranj committee of the LDS 2004: Member of the ALDE Bureau 2005: President of LDS