Božo Kovačević (born 11 January 1955) is a Croatian politician and diplomat. Kovačević was born in

Pakrac Pakrac is a town in western Slavonia, Croatia, population 4,842, total municipality population 8,460 (census 2011). Pakrac is located on the road and railroad connecting the regions of Posavina and Podravina. Name In Croatian the town is known a ...

and he graduated in sociology and philosophy at the

Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb ( Croatian: ''Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu'') is one of the faculties of the University of Zagreb. History The Faculty of Philosophy is the oldest fac ...

.http://www.mvep.hr/hr/predstavnistva/poslanici/kovacevic-bozo/ Kovačević was one of the founders of the

Croatian Social Liberal Party The Croatian Social Liberal Party ( hr, Hrvatska socijalno-liberalna stranka or HSLS) is a conservative-liberal political party in Croatia. The HSLS was formed in 1989 as the first Croatian political party formed after the reintroduction of mult ...

in 1989, and the Liberal Party in 1998. Kovačević was the

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...

of the

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to the

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from January 2004 to February 2009. He was the Minister of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning in the

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and 8th Government of the Republic of Croatia, from January 2000 to July 2003.

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1955 births Living people People from Pakrac Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament Ambassadors of Croatia to Russia Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Croatian Social Liberal Party politicians Liberal Party (Croatia) politicians Government ministers of Croatia Party of Liberal Democrats politicians {{Croatia-politician-stub

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