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Reference List

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What references have you used for the report?

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Patrick Heck

Minister Plenipotentiary, Policy Planning and Global Issues, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs

Patrick Heck is currently Minister Plenipotentiary for Policy Planning and Global Issues in Luxembourg’s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MFA). After two years in Customer Relations at the Bank of Sante Fe in New Mexico (USA), Heck joined the MFA in 1995, spending five years as a desk officer responsible for Asia/Oceania and EU Common Security and Defence Policy within the Directorate of Political Affairs. For the next five years, he served as either Deputy Permanent Representative (2000–2005) or Charge d’affaires a.i. (2002–2003) of Luxembourg’s Permanent Representation to NATO before spending four years as a legal adviser to the general manager of the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA) in Capellen, Luxembourg. After joining Luxembourg’s National Intelligence Service in 2009 as the Head of the Operations Branch, he served as the organisation’s Director for over five years beginning in March 2010. Between January 2016 and April 2019, he served as the Director of the Department of Defence in the MFA. Heck earned an LLM and Master of Public International Law at Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, France, in 1993. The following year, he earned a national law certificate at the University of Luxembourg.

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Asselborn, Jean (2019). Speech of Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn to Parliament on 13 March 2019.

Luxembourg Aid & Development (2018). Luxembourg’s General Development Cooperation Strategy: The Road to 2030.

HCNP (High Commission for National Protection). Remit.

MFEA (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs) (2017). Luxembourg Defence Guidelines for 2025 and Beyond.

MFEA (2019). Mission Statement. Updated 4 April 2019.

Luxembourg Report