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Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata assumed his duties as the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations on August 20, 2008. Prior to his New York assignment, Ambassador Terzi served in the Foreign Ministry in Rome as Deputy Secretary General, Director General for Multilateral  Political Affairs and Human Rights, and Political Director. During those four years 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. 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 Affaires, 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 Italian Mission 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. Born in Bergamo, Giulio Terzi, earned a degree in Law at the University of Milan, specializing in International Law. |
