Ioannis Kasoulides was born on 10th of August, 1948 in Nicosia. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Nicosia, known locally as Lefkosia (Λευκωσία Lefkoşa is the Capital and largest city of Cyprus. He is married with Mme Droushiotou Emy and has one daughter named Joanna.

Kasoulides studied medicine at the University of Lyon in France and specialised in geriatrics in London. The University of Lyon ( Université de Lyon) located in Lyon, France, is a center for higher education and research comprising 16 institutions of higher He founded, and was the chairman of, the Federation of Cypriot Students Union in France and served from various party posts in the centre-right party, democratic Rally. Upon his return to Cyprus, he started practicing medicine. In 1991, he was elected to Parliament, and in March 1993 he was appointed to the post of Government Spokesman, where he served until April 1997 when he was appointed Foreign Minister until the end of term of the Clerides administration in 2003.

In June 2004, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament. The European Parliament ( Europarl or EP) is the only directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU He sat as a Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party until November 2007, when he stood as candidate for the Presidency in Cyprus. The European People's Party (EPP is a Christian democratic and Liberal conservative European political party. He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and serves as a substitute in the Transport and Tourism Committee. He is also member of the Euromeditarranean Parliamentary Assembly, serving as the EPP-ED group's coordinator in the Committee for Culture and Intercultural Dialogue. In the European Parliament, he is also serving as Vice-Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council, Chairman of the ad hoc Delegation for Human Rights in Western Sahara, and Chairman of the Friends of the Commonwealth Intergroup.

Kasoulides run for President in the February 2008 elections in Cyprus. He won the first round, against all expectations, entering the second round against the eventual winner, Demetris Christofias. Dimitris Christofias (Δημήτρης Χριστόφιας also "Demetris" is a left-wing Greek Cypriot politician and the current and sixth Kasoulides received just under 47% of the vote, an impressive result, given that his opponent had negotiated the support of all major political parties.

Contents 1 Education and work experience 2 Publications 3 Career 4 Decorations 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Education and work experience

• 1974: Graduate in medicine (M. A graduate school or ("grad school" is a school that awards advanced degrees such as doctoral degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the D. ) in Lyon
• 1981: specialised in geriatrics at London Hospital
• 1975-1981: Hospital doctor and lecturer in London
• 1981-1993: Practised medicine in Nicosia

Publications

• “Cyprus-EE: The accession as I lived it” (2007)

Career

• 1985-1989: Various posts in the Democratic Rally (DISY)
• 1990-1993: Chairman of Democratic Rally Youth Movement
• from 1993: Member of the Democratic Rally Political Bureau
• 1991-1993: Deputy for Nicosia
• 1993-1997: Government spokesman
• 1997-2003: Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Founder of D. ||-||} Lyon, also known as Lyons in English is a city in east-central France. Geriatrics is the branch of Medicine that focuses on health care of the elderly Royal London Museum and Archives The Royal London has a museum which is located in the crypt of a 19th century church Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the Chamber of deputies is the name given to a legislative body such as the Lower house of a Bicameral legislature or can refer to a Unicameral legislature Foreign Affairs is an influential American Journal on International relations published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR D. K
• July 2003: Strategy and Public Affairs Limited (communications and crisis management consultants)
• May 2004: Elected member of European Parliament

Decorations

• Commander of the Order of the Phoenix Hellenic Republic
• Commander of the Order of Merit Hellenic Republic
• Commander of the Order of Xirka (Malta)
• Commander of the Order of the Cedar (Lebanon)
• Commander of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre
• Palestinian Bethlehem 2000 Award
• Athens Municipality Highest Distinction Award

See also

• European Parliament election, 2004 (Cyprus)

References

External links

• European Parliament biography
• DeclarationPDF of financial interests (Greek)
• Personal website link http://kasoulides.com [1]
• CYPRUS ELECTIONS - ΕΚΛΟΓΕΣ
• Cyprus Elections & Politics

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