Francesco Paolo Fulci
Francesco Paolo Fulci | |
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Italian Ambassador to the United Nations | |
| In office 1993–1999 | |
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| Born | 19 March 1931 Messina, Italy |
| Died | 21 January 2022 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Corporate president |
Francesco Paolo Fulci (19 March 1931 – 21 January 2022) was an Italian diplomat who served as
Education
Fulci graduated with honours in law in 1953 from the
Early diplomatic career
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Fulci entered the Italian foreign service in 1956. He served as secretary-general of Italy's Executive Committee for Intelligence and Security from 1991 until 1993. From 1985 to 1991, he was
During his long diplomatic career, Ambassador Fulci served his country in other important world capitals, including New York City, Moscow, Paris, and Tokyo.
United Nations
Ambassador Fulci was Permanent Representative of Italy to the
At the UN, he co-founded, with the Ambassadors of Egypt, Mexico and Pakistan, the so-called Coffee Club, a powerful lobby of countries formed in the early 1990s to oppose the expansion of the permanent membership of the Security Council, and push for the enlargement of non-permanent seats. In 1998 Ambassador Fulci masterminded the procedural resolution, introduced by the Coffee Club and approved by the General Assembly, which states that any resolution or decision on the reform of the Security Council, at all stages of the reform process, has to be adopted with a majority of two-thirds of the UN member states. The Coffee Club was recently revived by Italy and Pakistan under the name of Uniting for Consensus to block a renewed bid by Germany, India, Japan, and Brazil to obtain a permanent seat in the Council.[2]
In his capacity as president of the Economic and Social Council, Ambassador Fulci underlined in a "Manifesto on Poverty Eradication" ten priorities: they were later enshrined in the UN Millennium Declaration and in the UN Millennium Development Goals, adopted in September 2000, as well as in the "Monterrey Consensus" of 2002, at the end of the International Conference on Financing for Development.
Later career and death
Fulci joined the Ferrero Confectionery Group in 2000 as vice president and served as president of
He died on 21 January 2022, at the age of 90.[3]
Honors
- 1981, honorary doctorate of law, University of Windsor in Ontario
- 1996, honorary doctorate of law, St. Thomas Aquinas College in New York
- 1998, honorary doctorate of law, St. John's Universityin New York
- Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross – 2 June 1992
See also
Notes
- ^ "Permanent Representative of Italy Elected President of Economic and Social Council". Press Release BIO/3215 and ECOSOC/5810. United Nations. 20 January 1999.
- ^ Ariyoruk, Ayca (3 July 2005). "Players and Proposals in the Security Council Debate". UN Reform Watch, Center for UN Reform Education. Archived from the original on 21 March 2007.
- ^ "È morto Francesco Paolo Fulci, leggenda della diplomazia" (in Italian). la Repubblica. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
References
- Ranieri Tallarigo (editor), "L'Italia all'ONU 1993-1999. Gli anni con Paolo Fulci: quando la diplomazia fa gioco di squadra" , Rubbettino, 2007
- Elio Menzione "La sfida di New York. L'Italia e la riforma del Consiglio di Sicurezza" Rubbettino Ed. 2017
- Fulci, Francesco Paolo. "L'Unione Europea alle Nazioni Unite." Rivista di studi politici internazionali 68.1 (269 (2001): 32-41.
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