Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata

Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata (2013)

Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata (short Giulio Terzi ; born June 9, 1946 in Bergamo ) is an Italian diplomat and politician. He was Italian Ambassador to Israel from 2002–04 , Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in 2008–09 and Ambassador to the United States in 2009–11. From November 2011 to March 2013, he was Foreign Minister in the professional Monti government .

Career

Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata comes from an old Lombard noble family . He studied law in Milan , specializing in international law .

In 1973 he joined the Italian Foreign Service . He first worked for two years in the protocol service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then as first secretary at the Italian embassy in Paris . In 1978 he became assistant to the secretary general of the State Department and then almost five years counselor for economic and trade affairs in Ottawa , Canada . As the Italian Consul General in Vancouver , he organized various events during the Expo 86 there to strengthen Italy's economic and cultural relations with Canada. In 1987 he returned to the ministry in Rome, where he took on tasks in the economic and human resources departments. The next assignment abroad took him to Brussels , where he worked as a political advisor to the Italian representation to NATO .

This was followed by the Italian Mission to the United Nations in New York City from 1993 to 1998 , where he finally became Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission . Back in Rome, Terzi di Sant'Agata took on the post of Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then head of the Political Affairs and Human Rights Department. From 2002 to 2004 he was the Italian ambassador to Israel . In this position, he advocated an invitation to Israel from the Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini . This was controversial as Fini had started his political career with the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI). In the meantime, however, he had distanced himself from fascism and presented himself as a friend of Israel. From 2008 to 2009 Terzi was Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations and then Italian Ambassador to the United States .

Terzi as Foreign Minister (2012)

His appointment as foreign minister in the professional government of Mario Monti came so surprising that Terzi di Sant'Agata was unable to appear on November 16, 2011 for the swearing-in of ministers in the Quirinal Palace . He was sworn in later. In Rome it was said that Gianfranco Fini had proposed Terzi as foreign minister. Its conservative party Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia (FLI) supported the Monti government in parliament. On March 26, 2013 Terzi resigned as foreign minister. The reason was a dispute over two Italian marines accused of murder in India . The Monti government decided to send them back to India for legal proceedings, which Terzi refused to accept. From 2014 he became involved in the right-wing extremist party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI).

Terzi is married for the second time and has twins.

Honors (selection)

• Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Grand Cross) (2010)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata. File in the archives of the Italian Senate, accessed on June 4, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
3. ↑ Terzi is a margrave , count , baron , imperial knight and lord of Sant'Agata. Information on the origins of the Terzi di Sant'Agata aristocratic family ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian) 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jörg Bremer: Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata - Always loyal. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine (online), November 25, 2011.
5. ^ Because of the dispute with India: Italy's Foreign Minister Terzi resigns , FAZ.NET , March 26, 2013
6. ^ In nome del popolo sovrano - Congresso nazionale di FDI - AN (prima giornata). Radio Radicale, March 8, 2014.
7. ^ Gianluca Roselli: Benvenuti ad Atreju, dove si sogna un ticket Salvini-Meloni. In: Formiche , September 26, 2015.
8. ^ Page of the President

literature

• Jörg Bremer: Always loyal: Giulio Terzi. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 26, 2011, p. 10.

Web links

Commons : Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata  - Quotes (Italian)

• Giulio Terzi website (Italian)

predecessor	Office	successor
Gian Paolo Cavarai	Italian Ambassador to Israel 2002–2004	Sandro De Bernardin
Marcello Spatafora	Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations 2008–2009	Cesare Maria Ragaglini
Giovanni Castellaneta	Ambassador of Italy to the United States 2009–2011	Claudio Bisogniero