| Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 16 November 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | Mario Monti |
| Preceded by | Franco Frattini |
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| Born | 9 June 1946 Bergamo, Italy |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater | University of Milan |
Giulio Maria Terzi di Sant'Agata (born June 9, 1946) is an Italian diplomat who has been Italy's Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs since November 2011. From August 2008 to September 2009, he was the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in New York, where he also headed the Italian Delegation to the United Nations Security Council, which Italy had joined as non-permanent member for the 2007-2008 term. He then served as Italy's Ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2011.
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Born in Bergamo, Terzi is a career diplomat. He joined Italy's foreign service in 1973. During his first two years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, he served as a Protocol Officer assigned to visits abroad by Italian Government Officials. In 1975 he was posted as First Secretary for political affairs at the Italian Embassy in Paris. After returning to Rome in 1978, as Special Assistant to the Secretary General, he was in Canada as Economic and Commercial Counsellor for almost five years, a period of sharp growth in economic and high-tech cooperation between Italy and Canada. He was Consul General in Vancouver during Expo 86, where he promoted major events for Italian businesses and culture on Canada’s Pacific Coast.
In 1987 he returned to Rome to serve first at the Department for Economic Affairs, focusing on high technology exchange, and later as Head of one of the Offices of the Department of Personnel and Human Resources. His next foreign assignment was to NATO in Brussels, where he was Political Adviser to the Italian Mission to the North Atlantic Council in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, German reunification, and the first Gulf War.
From 1993 to 1998 he was in New York at the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations as First Counsellor for Political Affairs and later as Minister and Deputy Permanent Representative. During this period – marked by the Bosnian War, the Somali tragedy, the Great Lakes and other African conflicts – Italy was a non-permanent member of the Security Council. By the mid-nineties globalisation and new challenges to international security underscored the need for major reforms of the UN bodies, a cause that Italy championed in all the UN fora.
Ambassador Terzi served as Deputy Secretary General of Italy's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, Director General for Political Affairs and Human Rights, and Political Director. In this capacity, his responsibilities included major international security and political issues, especially in the framework of the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, and the UN Council on Human Rights, as well as the Council of the European Union, NATO, the G8, and OSCE. He also advised the Foreign Minister on international security, focusing on the Western Balkans, the Middle East, Afghanistan, East Africa, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and human rights.
His most recent overseas posting was as Ambassador of Italy to Israel (2002–2004), a period characterized by the outbreak of the Second Intifada, improved relations between the EU and Israel during the Italian Presidency of the EU (July–December 2003), and the renewed commitment of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to the peace process on the basis of the road map.
On 16 November 2011 Terzi was named Minister of Foreign Affairs in the technocratic cabinet headed by Prime Minister Mario Monti.[1] In December 2011, following the bloody repression of protests in Syria, he met with Syrian opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun and advocated tougher sanctions against the Assad regime.[2]
Ambassador Terzi earned a degree in Law at the University of Milan, specializing in International Law.
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| Preceded by Marcello Spatafora |
Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations 2008–2009 |
Succeeded by Cesare Ragaglini |
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| Preceded by Franco Frattini |
Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2011 |
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