Didier Opertti

Didier Opertti

Didier Opertti Badán (born April 23, 1937 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan politician. He is the former interior and foreign minister of his country and was President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1998/99 .

Life

Bandan is a lawyer, professor of private international law, and a PhD in social sciences . He worked as a lawyer in Uruguay from the 1960s to the 1980s. From 1988 to 1993 he was his country's ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington. From March 1, 1995 to February 2, 1998, he was Minister of the Interior and from February 2, 1998 to March 1, 2005, Foreign Minister of his country.

Opertti presided over Mercosur as Foreign Minister Uruguay in 1999 and was elected President for one year by the UN General Assembly in 1998. In the elections in autumn 2004, the government he belonged to was voted out of office so that his term of office ended at the end of February 2005. He was then Secretary General of the Latin American Integration Association from 2005 to 2008 .

Opertti has also been a member of the United Nations International Law Commission since 1997 . Opertti is married and has four children.

Web links

• Biography with photo on the homepage of the Latin American Integration Association ( English , Portuguese , Spanish )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Index O on rulers.org, accessed June 7, 2016
2. ↑ Ministries, etc. on www.rulers.org, accessed on February 22, 2014