Bogdan Aurescu | |
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 Aurescu in 2024 | |
| Judge of theInternational Court of Justice | |
| Assumed office February 6, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Kirill Gevorgian |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 4 November 2019 – 15 June 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Ludovic Orban Florin Cîțu Nicolae Ciucă |
| Preceded by | Ramona Mănescu |
| Succeeded by | Luminița Odobescu |
| In office 24 November 2014 – 17 November 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Victor Ponta Gabriel Oprea(Acting) Victor Ponta Sorin Cîmpeanu(Acting) |
| Preceded by | Teodor Meleșcanu |
| Succeeded by | Lazăr Comănescu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1973-09-09)9 September 1973 (age 52) |
| Party | Independent |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest Carol I National Defence University |
Bogdan Lucian Aurescu (born 9 September 1973) is a Romanian judge of theInternational Court of Justice.[1] Prior to his swearing-in on 6 February 2024, Aurescu was a diplomat, law professor and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania between 4 November 2019 and 15 June 2023 under prime ministers:Ludovic Orban,Florin Cîțu andNicolae Ciucă. He also held that position between 24 November 2014 and 17 November 2015 under prime ministerVictor Ponta.
He also held the position of Foreign Policy Advisor to thePresident of Romania from May 2016 to November 2019 and Secretary of State in the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs (2009–2010, 2012–2014), Secretary of State for European Affairs (2004–2005, 2010–2012) and Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2012).
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Between 2004 and 2009, Aurescu was his country's chief counsel in theMaritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case, a boundary dispute withUkraine that Romania brought before theInternational Court of Justice.[2]
Between 2010 and 2011, he was the head of the Romanian delegation for the negotiations on the Romanian-American Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement, and of the Joint Declaration on the Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century between Romania and USA.
In November 2016, he was elected by theUnited Nations General Assembly as a member of the UN International Law Commission for a five years mandate (2017–2021).
On 9 November 2023, at the2023 International Court of Justice judges election, Aurescu was elected as theEastern European representative at theInternational Court of Justice (ICJ).[3] He received the votes of 117UN General Assembly members, beatingRussia's representativeKirill Gevorgian, who received the votes of 77. This marked the first time that Russia would not be represented at the Court.[4]
He is also a Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, having started his teaching activity in 1998.
Adrian Năstase promoted Bogdan Aurescu to the post of Undersecretary of State and later, to the Secretary of State. Aurescu was Năstase's assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest for the Public International Law discipline and they wrote together several legal treaties.[5] In 2004, Aurescu ran for a seat in theRomanian Parliament on behalf of theSocial Democratic Party (PSD) inDâmbovița County, but he did not win.[6]
In November 2014, Adrian Năstase attended an event called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Minister Bogdan Aurescu. Recently released from prison, where he was imprisoned being sentenced twice for the corruption offenses, Năstase was next to Aurescu, who had just been appointed Foreign Minister, at a book launch event.[7] In April 2015, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Adrian Năstase, who was twice sentenced for prison, returned to the Government, more precisely to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the invitation of the acting minister Bogdan Aurescu to the meeting of an advisory council. The ministry led by Aurescu then argued that the invitation was made "because of his rich institutional and professional expertise".[8]
In June 2015, Prime MinisterVictor Ponta was charged by theNational Anticorruption Directorate for several corruption offenses. At that time, Bogdan Aurescu was a member of the Ponta Government and remained in office until November 2015, when Victor Ponta resigned.[9]
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