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Sandra Kalniete (born 22 December 1952) is a Latvian politician, author, diplomat and independence movement leader. She served as Foreign Minister of Latvia 2002–2004 and as European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries in 2004. Since 2009, she has served as Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party. She is currently a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI). Additionally she is a member on the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and a substitute member on the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and on the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.〔http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96934/SANDRA_KALNIETE_home.html〕 After her reelection in 2014 she became Vice-Chair of the Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament. Kalniete is also the chairperson of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group, an all-party group in the European Parliament involved in promoting the Prague Process. The group includes 40 MEPs from across the political spectrum including the European People's Party, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, the Greens, and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://eureconciliation.wordpress.com/about/ )〕 She has previously served as Ambassador to the United Nations (1993–97), France (1997–2000) and UNESCO (2000–02). Beside her native Latvian language she is also fluent in English, French and Russian. ==Background== Kalniete was born in Togur, Tomsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia, where her family had been deported from Latvia by the Soviet secret police during the occupation of her country by the Soviet Union, for use as slave labour.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MEPs Honor Victims of Baltic Deportations )〕〔Valters Nollendorfs, (Crimes of communism in Latvia ), Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes〕 She only saw her native country when she was seven years old. She studied art at Latvian Academy of Art from 1977 to 1981 and worked as an art historian, publishing a book, ''Latvian textile art'', in 1989. She joined politics in 1988, during Latvia's independence movement, and was a deputy chairwoman and one of the founders of Latvian Popular Front, the main pro-independence political organization. Ms. Kalniete has graduated the Department of Art History and Art Theory in the Art Academy of Latvia (1981), the Institute for International Studies in Leeds University (1992), The Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva (1995), and has a Master of Arts from Art Academy of Latvia (1996). After Latvia declared independence, Kalniete worked in Latvia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as Latvia's ambassador to the UN (from 1993 to 1997), France (from 1997 to 2000) and UNESCO (from 2000 to 2002). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sandra Kalniete」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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