Jacques Faure (ambassador)
Jacques Faure may refer to: * Jacques Faure (French Army officer) (1904–1988), French Army general and skier * Jacques Faure (ambassador), former French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group See also * Jacques-Paul Faure Jacques-Paul Faure (14 November 1869 – 24 August 1924) was an officer of the French Army. He studied in the French Ecole Polytechnique (promotion 1889). He led the French Military Mission to Japan (1918-1919). Biography Jacques-Paul Faure was ...

Jacques Faure (French Army Officer)
Jacques Marie Alfred Gaston Faure (2 March 1904 – 9 April 1988) was a French Army general and skier. He was the leader of the French national Olympic military patrol team in 1936 which placed sixth and in 1961 one of the masterminds of the Algiers putsch. Biography Jacques Faure was born on 2 March 1904 in Bordeaux, Gironde department. He was the son of colonel that was killed during World War I and grandson of a general. During his service in the army he was a chasseurs alpins soldier and a paratrooper. He passed the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM). In October 1927 he joined the 13th Chasseurs Alpins Battalion in Chambéry, where he became leader of a ski reconnaissance platoon from 1930 to 1931, and afterwards Captain. Meanwhile, he visited the high mountain school École de Haute Montagne (EHM) in Chamonix in 1930. From 1932 to 1938 he was commander of the French military ski team, and was French Champion in military skiing the same years. During this perio ...
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Jacques Faure (ambassador)
Jacques Faure may refer to: * Jacques Faure (French Army officer) (1904–1988), French Army general and skier * Jacques Faure (ambassador), former French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group See also * Jacques-Paul Faure Jacques-Paul Faure (14 November 1869 – 24 August 1924) was an officer of the French Army. He studied in the French Ecole Polytechnique (promotion 1889). He led the French Military Mission to Japan (1918-1919). Biography Jacques-Paul Faure was ...

OSCE Minsk Group
The OSCE Minsk Group was created in 1992 by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), now Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), to encourage a peaceful, negotiated resolution to the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh. Founding and members The Helsinki Additional Meeting of the CSCE Council on 24 March 1992, requested the Chairman-in-Office to convene as soon as possible a conference on Nagorno-Karabakh under the auspices of the CSCE to provide an ongoing forum for negotiations towards a peaceful settlement of the crisis on the basis of the principles, commitments and provisions of the CSCE. The Conference is to take place in Minsk. Although it has not to this date been possible to hold the conference, the so-called Minsk Group spearheads the OSCE effort to find a political solution to this conflict. On 6 December 1994, the Budapest Summit of Heads of State or Government decided to establish a co-chairmanship fo ...
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