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Dimitrij Rupel (born April 7, 1946) is a Slovenian politician and the current Special Envoy for Foreign Affairs of the Prime Minister of Slovenia Borut Pahor.

Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March (his grandfather was the last Slovene mayor of Duino in Austria-Hungary).