Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata | |
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.jpg) Terzi de Sant'Agata in 2012 | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 16 November 2011 – 26 March 2013 | |
| Prime Minister | Mario Monti |
| Preceded by | Franco Frattini |
| Succeeded by | Emma Bonino |
| Member of the Senate | |
| Assumed office 13 October 2022 | |
| Constituency | Treviglio |
| Ambassador of Italy to the United States | |
| In office 1 October 2009 – 16 November 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Giovanni Castellaneta |
| Succeeded by | Claudio Bisogniero |
| Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations | |
| In office 25 August 2008 – 8 November 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Marcello Spatafora |
| Succeeded by | Cesare Ragaglini |
| Ambassador of Italy to Israel | |
| In office 2002–2004 | |
| Preceded by | Gian Paolo Cavarai |
| Succeeded by | Sandro De Bernardin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata (1946-06-09)9 June 1946 (age 79) Bergamo, Kingdom of Italy |
| Political party | FdI (2013–present) PR (2017–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Independent (until 2013) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Milan |
Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata (Italian:[ˈdʒuːljoˈtɛrtsidisanˈtaːɡata]; born 9 June 1946) is an Italian diplomat and politician. He was Italy'sMinister of Foreign Affairs inMario Monti's government from November 2011 until March 2013,Permanent Representative of Italy to theUnited Nations in New York between 2008 and 2009 andAmbassador of Italy to the United States between 2009 and 2011. He is currently a Senator of the Republic of Italy and the President of the 4th Permanent Senate Commission of EU Affairs[1] elected from the Lombardy constituency as a part ofBrothers of Italy.[2] He is also the President of the India-Italy Parliamentary Friendship group.[3]
Born in a noble family fromBergamo, after the classical high school diploma obtained at the episcopal college of St. Alexander inBergamo,[4] Giulio Terzi earned a degree in Law at theUniversity of Milan, specializing ininternational law.
Terzi joined Italy's foreign service in 1973. During his first two years at theMinistry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, he served as a protocol officer assigned to visits by Italian government officials abroad. In 1975 he was posted as first secretary for political affairs at the Italian embassy inParis. After returning to Rome in 1978, as Special Assistant to the Secretary-General, he was inCanada as Economic and Commercial Counsellor for almost five years, a period of sharp growth in economic and high-tech cooperation between Italy and Canada. He was Consul General inVancouver duringExpo 86, where he promoted major events for Italian businesses and culture on Canada'sPacific Coast.
In 1987, Terzi returned to Rome to serve first at the Department for Economic Affairs, focusing onhigh technology exchange, and later as Head of one of the Offices of the Department of Personnel and Human Resources. His next foreign assignment was toNATO inBrussels, where he was Political Adviser to the Italian Mission to theNorth Atlantic Council in the immediate aftermath of theCold War,German reunification, and the firstGulf War.[5]
From 1993 to 1998, Terzi was inNew York City at the Permanent Mission of Italy to theUnited Nations as First Counsellor for Political Affairs and later as Minister and Deputy Permanent Representative. During this period – marked by theBosnian War, theSomali Civil War, as well as conflicts in theAfrican Great Lakes region – Italy was a non-permanent member of theUN Security Council. By the mid-ninetiesglobalisation and new challenges to international security underscored the need for major reforms of the UN bodies, a cause that Italy championed in all the UN fora.Terzi served as deputy secretary-general of Italy'sMinistry of Foreign Affairs inRome, director-general for political affairs and human rights, and political director. In this capacity, his responsibilities included major international security and political issues, especially in the framework of theUN Security Council, theUN General Assembly, and theUnited Nations Human Rights Council, as well as theCouncil of the European Union,NATO, theG8, andOSCE. He also advised the Foreign Minister oninternational security, focusing on theWestern Balkans, theMiddle East,Afghanistan,East Africa,nuclear proliferation,terrorism, andhuman rights.
His most recent overseas posting was ambassador of Italy toIsrael (2002–2004), a period characterized by the outbreak of theSecond Intifada, improved relations between theEU and Israel during the Italian Presidency of theEU (July–December 2003), and the renewed commitment of Israel and thePalestinian Authority to thepeace process.
From 20 August 2008 to 30 September 2009, Terzi was Italy's permanent representative to theUnited Nations inNew York, where he led the Italian delegation to theUN Security Council during the last year of the Italian biennium as a non-permanent member (2007–2008).[5]
From 8 October 2009 to 16 November 2011 Terzi wasAmbassador to the United States in Washington DC.
On 16 November 2011 Terzi was appointedMinister of Foreign Affairs in the technocraticcabinet headed byPrime MinisterMario Monti.[6]
During his tenure, he held 1,483 meetings and events, which covered 91 different countries with 75 official visits abroad and 138 meetings with other foreign ministers, of which 63 in Italy and 75 overseas.[7] He was member of the "Westervelle Group", composed by 11 European Foreign Ministers and aimed at supporting initiatives for "More Europe" in the European political integration process.[8] He actively promoted UN moratorium on the death penalty resolution and other campaigns for human rights and fundamental freedoms.[9]
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Within the EU and NATO, Minister Terzi was a strong advocate for a renewed "Pratica di Mare" partnership with theRussian Federation in order to settle energy and rule of law issues, as well as European security concerns raised from east–west diverging positions on conventional and nuclear forces. He gave impulse to policies of diversification of energy supplies to Italy, by negotiating and signing during the 2012 UNGA in New York the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for theTrans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) betweenAlbania,Greece andItaly, by strengthening relations with transitional governments in Libya, and enhancing economic cooperation withMozambique,Angola andAlgeria. He pursued a reinforced Mediterranean political and economic cooperation in the Mediterranean region in the "5+5 Dialogue" framework, with Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia, and other bilateral and multilateral initiatives through the EU, NATO and the UN. At the same time, Minister Terzi did strive for a closer EU political, economic, and scientific cooperation with Israel and for the reactivation of thepeace process on the basis of the two-state solution. During his tenure, Minister Terzi engaged in a more active Italian diplomacy for theHorn of Africa, by visiting and signing new agreements withEthiopia andSomalia.[10]
The seizure by India of two Italian marines (marò) in international waters off theKerala coast on 16 February 2012 over an alleged incident and the shooting deaths of two fishermen which India claimed had involved the Italian tankerEnrica Lexie and its Military Protection Unit, while on official duty in the framework of international anti-piracy activities, caused a dispute between India and Italy on jurisdiction.
The dispute was brought by the Italian Government to the UN, EU, regional and global fora, and discussed at bilateral and multilateral levels with India, with the intent of settling the dispute through the arbitration procedure[11] established by theUnited Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), to which both Italy and India are signatories.[12] Having India formally rejected all Italian proposals for convening UNCLOS Arbitration, Terzi on 11 March 2013 announced – on behalf of and in agreement with the government – that the two Italian marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone – who had meanwhile been sent back to Italy having obtained from the Indian authorities a "temporary leave" to exert their electoral duties – would not have left the country to return to India until the arbitration established by UNCLOS[13] decided on the matter of jurisdiction.
The Indian reaction leads to growing tensions until on 21 March the Prime Minister's Office reversed Terzi's policy and announced the decision to send the two back to India.[14] Such a sudden change in the government's strategy was severely criticized and rejected formally in writing by Terzi.[15] While Terzi was waiting for clarifications from the PM Monti, he clarified that he had no intention to resign.[16]
Three days later, on 26 March 2013 – as soon as the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies reconvened to discuss the latest developments on the case – Terzi announced in parliament his resignation because of his dissent with the position of the government which had reversed a previously agreed decision of keeping the two Marines in Italy until the UNCLOS arbitration would have deliberated on the matter of jurisdiction.[17][18] The following day, PM Mario Monti assumed the interim as foreign minister. Terzi's resignation has been criticized by Monti, who told the Chamber of Deputies that Terzi had not expressed any dissent or mentioned an intention to resign. Monti strongly criticized Terzi's resignation, which he attributed to the non-effective handling of the dossier of the diplomatic dispute over the2012Enrica Lexie incident.[19][20][21]
In a 27 March 2013 address to the Italian parliament, Monti revealed that Terzi repeatedly hampered efforts to settle the dispute with India in a quiet manner by perpetuating controversies through hawkish statements posted on Twitter.[22] Monti attributed the "hardening" of India's stance to "rash" statements to the press by Terzi and concluded his parliamentary briefing on the debacle, saying that Italy's strategy "shouldn't have been the subject of premature statements to the press, which Minister Terzi decided instead to make, previewing a final result which at that point couldn't be taken for granted,".[23] According to Monti, Terzi's resignation was aimed at achieving "other results that will soon become more evident". Terzi immediately contested Monti's innuendos publicly, reiterating in various interviews and articles reasons and facts which had led to his resignation. On 29 March 2013 Terzi unveiled during a TV interview the heavy pressures he had received in order to give his consent to the return of the two Italian marines to India.[24][25][26][27] Pressures that he firmly refused,[28][29] since the Marines return to India before the UNCLOS Arbitration would have infringed principles and norms enshrined in the Italian Constitution.
After the 2013 political elections, although not running himself for office, Terzi joined the right-wingBrothers of Italy - National Alliance party, and from 9 March 2014 is part of the party bureau.[30] In 2017 Terzi announced he also joined theRadical Party, and its associationHands off Cain againstdeath penalty.[31][non-primary source needed]
In 2015 Terzi is appointed together with General Vincenzo Camporini to the Commission of Inquiry and Control of the High-level Group onOperation Protective Edge (Israel's 2014 war on Gaza).[32]
Since 2016 Terzi has been a member of the advisory board and representative in Italy of the lobbyUnited Against Nuclear Iran (UANI),[33] President of the Global Committee for the rule of law,[34] President of the International Relations Department ofFondazione Luigi Einaudi[35] and President of the Italian-Kosovo Chamber of Commerce.[36]
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross – November 22, 2010
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| Preceded by | Minister of Foreign Affairs 2011–2013 | Succeeded by |
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