Giancarlo Aragona

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Giancarlo Aragona (2014)

Giancarlo Aragona (born November 14, 1942 in Messina ) is an Italian diplomat . He was Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 1996 to 1999

Life

Aragona studied law at the University of Messina , where he will be in November 1964 exams took off. After graduating, he joined the Italian Diplomatic Service in March 1969 . In 1972 he was appointed press spokesman as second secretary at the Italian embassy in Vienna . Two years later he was consul at the Italian consulate in Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1977 counselor and deputy head of mission at the Italian embassy in Lagos . In 1980 Aragona returned to Rome for four years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation . In October 1984 he was appointed First Embassy Advisor at the Italian Embassy in London . In 1987 he moved to the Permanent Mission of Italy to NATO as Deputy Head of Mission .

In December 1992 Aragona returned to Rome. Until April 1994 he was diplomatic advisor to Defense Ministers Salvo Andò and Fabio Fabbri . He was then deputy head of cabinet and from 1995 head of cabinet in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In May 1996 he was elected Secretary General of the OSCE in Vienna for three years. Between June 1999 and October 2001 he worked as an ambassador at the Italian embassy in Moscow before working as general director for political affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2005 he was appointed Ambassador to the Italian Embassy in London . From September 2009, at the request of the then NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen , he was a member of a commission of experts that was developing a new strategic concept for NATO . Aragona was retired in December 2009. He is a member of the scientific committee of the think tank Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), whose presidency he held from 2011 to 2016. He is a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awarded on June 2, 2007 (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Aragona, Giancarlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian diplomat, OSCE Secretary General
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Messina , Sicily