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Alexander "Alex" Sceberras Trigona, dei Baroni di Castel Cicciano, Baron di Montagna di Marzo (born March 3, 1950 in Sliema ) is a Maltese politician of the Malta Labor Party (MLP).
Life
Alex Sceberras Trigona received his LL.D. [Dr. Jur.] With a dissertation on "Constitutional amendments and the Maltese Constitution", which laid the foundation for the fundamental constitutional amendments of 1974 that transformed Malta from a constitutional monarchy (then with the British Queen as head of state) into a republic.
He received a Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford , where he studied political science, philosophy and economics; He completed his studies with a dissertation on "The Anglo-Maltese Crisis of 1971-1972", in which he developed an original multidisciplinary approach to international relations using a specific example.
Alex Sceberras Trigona was Senior Lecturer in Private International Law in the Law School of the University of Malta ; He gave lectures on "Small States: the International Dimension of Public Policy" for civil servants and on "Diplomacy and Diplomatic Practice" and "Higher Diplomacy Studies" for "International Relations" students.
Alex Sceberras Trigona is a Senior Fellow at the Mediterranean Academy for Diplomatic Studies (MEDAC) and a pioneer in international distance learning courses on the Internet with the DiploFoundation, which he co-founded. He also taught courses on theoretical and applied diplomacy at MEDAC.
Sceberras Trigona was nominated by the Board of Governors of the Malta Arbitration Center for the Commission on International Commercial Arbitration under the Maltese Arbitration Act, Chapter 387 of 1996 from 2007.
In his post as International Secretary of the Young Socialists' League in Malta and International Secretary of the Malta Labor Party in the 1970s, Sceberras Trigona represented Malta at the Conference of Socialist Internationals and related international events around the world. He worked closely with Willy Brandt to transform the Socialist International from a Europe-centered organization into a truly international one. As Prime Minister Dom Mintoff's special envoy, he consistently promoted Malta's importance as a regional center for peace and security in the Mediterranean. In this position he was also charged with the various bilateral negotiations on issues of strategic importance to Malta.
For more than a decade he was editor of the monthly political-economic-cultural magazine IL-HSIEB . He was the founding director of the Mediterranean Conference Center , director of the Bank of Valletta, and academic advisor to the American University in Cairo , where he directed the international relations class for petrotechnical engineers from North Africa and the Middle East.
As Foreign Minister (1981–1987) he negotiated with Malta's regional neighbors Italy , France , Algeria and Libya on Malta's neutrality treaties and then with the two superpowers of the time: the United States of America and the USSR . He ensured that Malta's neutrality was generously supported by financial treaties he negotiated with Italy, the EEC , the People's Republic of China , Libya, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait . He even won recognition and support for Malta's neutrality from the Federal Republic of Germany in various meetings with the then Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and State Minister Jürgen Möllemann .
He initiated a series of Mediterranean Foreign Ministers' Conferences for the Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries - widely hailed as a significant confidence-building measure at the height of the Cold War. The first foreign ministers ' conference was held in Valletta , Malta, in 1984 , the second in Brijuni , Yugoslavia in 1987 , and the third in Algiers , Algeria in 1990 .
On behalf of Malta, Sceberras Trigona won, secured and occupied a seat on the United Nations Security Council in New York in 1983/1984 for a period of two full years - the first and only time since Malta's independence. He worked with all his might for the peaceful resolution of conflicts: in general and especially in the Middle East and the Mediterranean region.
He promoted and represented Malta's case on the delimitation of the continental shelf before the International Court of Justice in The Hague against Libya. This led to a court ruling that secured investment opportunities for oil producers by defining a fixed north-south dividing line for part of the continental shelf. The judgment was accepted by both parties and confirmed by their respective ratification processes and now forms part of the Maltese laws in Chapter 316 under the title: "The Malta-Libya Continental Shelf Delimitation (Ratification) Act". Sceberras Trigona had also successfully represented Malta's appeal in the court proceedings between Italy and Tunisia at the International Court of Justice.
He represented Malta for many years and headed the various political, security and economic delegations that negotiated numerous bilateral agreements with countries near and far. He also concluded multilateral treaties such as with the EEC, the Council of Europe , the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), the United Nations and its sub-organizations, the Commonwealth and the Non-Aligned Movement . He consistently emphasized the importance and importance of the Mediterranean dimension and also promoted Malta's interests.
Sceberras Trigona signed a treaty with the Holy See for free secondary schools in Malta. In order to ensure the ratification of certain specific treaties, he drafted and directed the passage of the Treaty Ratification Act, now incorporated into the Laws of Malta as the Ratification of Treaties Act in Chapter 304. He was a member of the parliamentary special committee on the constitution in the early 1980s, paving the way for the introduction of a neutrality clause in the constitution and, in 1987, for new rules on majority voting.
He was elected to the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva and advocated the establishment of a Conference on Cooperation and Security in the Mediterranean [“CSCM”], which led to the establishment of the Parliamentary Association of the Mediterranean [“PAM”] in Malta. He coordinated a series of meetings of the “Euro-Arab Parliament Dialogue”. One of these meetings took place in 1997 in the Parliamentary Chamber of Malta.
In the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, he was elected by the Group of European Socialists as its representative in the “Monitoring Committee for Compliance with the Obligations of the Member States”. In Strasbourg, Sceberras Trigona was an active member of the Legal Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for several years. He was also elected parliamentary rapporteur on free trade agreements in Europe and beyond.
As chairman of the parliamentary social affairs committee, he introduced a new system of “hearings” in Malta, both in connection with upcoming bills and to review existing laws, in which employers' associations, trade unions and consumer organizations actively seek advice and from both sides Parliament have been scrutinized, especially with regard to the Health and Safety Act and provisions at work.
In Parliament - in which he represented both the 10th and 4th constituencies - he particularly supported the passage of the Electronic Communications (Regulatory) Law, now Chapter 399 of the Laws of Malta; He emphasized that Malta's laws for the protection of intellectual property must be improved and adapted in accordance with the digital age, which were then finally legislated in Chapters 414–417 together with the introduction of the Electronic Commerce Act in Chapter 426.
He was also invited to the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005) as the Guest of Honor for Internet Guidance and Monitoring. He gives training courses on this special topic for diplomats, in which he combines legislation, economics and technology, for the Commonwealth in different regions of the world, for CAPRICOM in Trinidad , for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and in France both for the Council of Ministers and for there accredited ambassadors; for UNECA the UN Economic Committee for Africa in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia as well as for the Gulf States. He taught diplomats and engineers interdisciplinary in 2008 and 2009, so that they can master the complexity of Internet management and to get them on the "4th Global Internet Leadership Forum ”, which was organized under the auspices of the United Nations in Sharm el-Sheikh , Egypt in November 2009.
He organized and taught training courses for diplomats on security policy in Asia, in Europe and for the GCSP and the Gulf Research Center in Geneva, and held regular courses on the democratic control of the armed forces in Eastern European and Central Asian countries.
He launched an innovative approach to the climate change debate in the Maldives in 2007 by successfully linking climate change with human rights, and found the support of the Alliance of Small Island States . This link is now being officially discussed and continued by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Sceberras Trigona has been invited by the EU Commission since 2007 to train its diplomats regularly and annually in Brussels: "multi-stakeholder diplomacy", diplomacy and internet guidance as well as on the diplomatic dimension of the global climate change negotiations post-2012 for the European foreigner Service .
In August 2008 he was re-elected Secretary for International Affairs of the Malta Labor Party and represented the party at several bilateral meetings with sister parties as well as at several international conferences organized by the Party of European Socialists (PES), the Socialist International (SI) and at the regular high-level meetings of the China-Europe Political Party Forum.
He organized high-level meetings for the leader of the opposition (and later Prime Minister) Joseph Muscat , among others with China's Vice-President Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2010, with SPD General Secretary Sigmar Gabriel in Berlin in 2011, with the secretary of the Italian Partito Democratico Pier Luigi Bersani In 2009, with François Hollande in Paris in 2012, before he was elected President of France, and with the President of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abd al-Jalil, in Tripoli in 2012.
In March 2009 he was appointed to the European lawyers network Eusonet and spoke at several meetings held regularly in Brussels and Dresden, among other things, about new EU legislation on European contract law and immigration.
In May 2010 he was elected to the board of the Brussels-based Scientific Advisory Board of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) - an association of progressive expert commissions of the European member states that deal with research on legal, economic, political and security matters. At the FEPS conference “Call to Europe”, which took place in the Bibliothèque Solvay in 2011 , he launched an initiative to review the work of the newly established European External Action Service (EEAS) annually and critically.
At the FEPS conference “Renaissance for Europe”, which took place in Paris in March 2012 and in Turin in February 2013, he presented proposals for strengthening cooperation in the Mediterranean region and for strengthening the recognition and application of social rights in Europe recently legally binding International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights . At the FEPS conference “Renaissance for Europe” in Leipzig in May 2013, at which the 150th anniversary of the SPD was celebrated, he presented proposals for the further development and strengthening of Europe's energy security by investing in underwater power cables from North Africa to Europe via Malta.
After the Labor Party (Partit Laburista) was re-elected to government responsibility on March 9, 2013, Sceberras Trigona was appointed Special Envoy of the Prime Minister, and on October 15 he also presented his credentials as Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva.
He works in Malta as a notary in the law firm Sceberras Trigona & Sceberras Trigona in Valletta. He is married to Johanna nee Borg and has two daughters: Alexia and Angela.
Sceberras Trigona is also a lecturer at the GULF Research Center .
Web links
- A left winger waiting in the wings ( Memento from November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: Malta Today of June 17, 2001
- Entry on the DiploFoundation homepage ( access on June 17, 2012)
- Maltese Key Ministeries (rulers.org)
Individual evidence
- ^ DiploFoundation
- ↑ Entry on the homepage of the GULF Research Center (page accessed on June 17, 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sceberras Trigona, Alex |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sceberras Trigona, Alexander, dei Baroni di Castel Cicciano, Baron di Montagna di Marzo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Maltese politician (MLP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sliema |