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Heidi Tagliavini

Heidi Tagliavini (born 1950) is a Swiss former diplomat. She is noted for her service with international aid and peacekeeping missions; a 2003 profile in the monthly magazine of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called her "Switzerland's outstanding diplomat".[1] She was charged with leading the European Union investigation into the causes of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War,[2] and represented the OSCE in the 2015 negotiations about the Minsk II agreement concerning the war in Donbass.

Life[edit]

Tagliavini was born in 1950 in Basel.[3]

Publications[edit]

Tagliavini co-published a book, The Caucasus - Defence of the Future (2001),[13] in which she recounts her Chechnya experiences. An amateur photographer, she is also the author of Zeichen der Zerstörung,[14] a book featuring her photographs of war-torn Chechnya.[15]