Jean-Pierre Olov Schori (born 14 October 1938, in

Norrköping Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Linköp ...

) is a Swedish

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and politician. For many years he was international secretary in the

Swedish Social Democratic Party The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party ( sv, Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti ; S/SAP), usually referred to as The Social Democrats ( sv, link=no, Socialdemokraterna ), is a social-d ...

and a close assistant to the Swedish Prime Minister

Olof Palme Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until h ...

. He assisted Palme in the Socialist International Movement and took part in the struggle against the fascist rule in

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and

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. Schori is among the editors-in-chief of '' Tiden'', a theoretical journal of the Social Democratic Party. In April 2005 he was appointed Special Representative for

Côte d'Ivoire Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...

by United Nations Secretary General

Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder ...

( UNOCI, succeeded by Choi Young-jin from

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in October 2007). He was Secretary General of Sweden's foreign ministry 1982–91, later member of the cabinet 1994–99 and Deputy Foreign Minister responsible for issues of foreign aid and migration,

Social Democratic Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soci ...

member of the

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, and Sweden's ambassador to the

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. Schori was appointed election supervisor in

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2002 by the

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. He was also suggested as the

' administrator for

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

, but never became one after protests from the

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. They objected to Schori's prior support for

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and other socialist regimes. Schori responded by accusing the Bush administration of "

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". In March 2007 Schori was named as the general director of

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, a defunct think-tank based in Madrid. Schori is sympathetically portrayed as ''Peter Sorman'' in the fellow 1968-radical

Jan Guillou Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (, ; born 17 January 1944) is a French-Swedish author and journalist. Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Pet ...

's Hamilton novels, with a clearly

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attitude, at least as critical against the United States as against

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or the

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. In a TV interview on 22 February 2004 the

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i ambassador to Sweden,

Zvi Mazel Zvi Mazel ( he, צבי מזאל; born 4 March 1939) is an Israeli diplomat. He has served as the Israeli ambassador to Egypt, Romania, and Sweden. Education and work experience Mazel was born in Bnei Brak, and served in the IDF from 1956 to 1958 ...

, called Schori and former Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson "professional anti-Israelis".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schori, Pierre 1938 births Living people People from Norrköping Permanent Representatives of Sweden to the United Nations Swedish Ministers for International Development Cooperation Swedish people of Swiss descent Swedish Social Democratic Party MEPs Swedish officials of the United Nations Members of the European Parliament for Sweden