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Giancarlo Aragona

The Second OSCE Secretary General
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OSCE Chairman-in-Office Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek meets with the OSCE Secretary General Giancarlo Aragona during a visit to the Secretariat in January 1999. (OSCE) Photo details

Ambassador Giancarlo Aragona was born in Messina, Italy, on 14 November 1942. He graduated in law from the University of Messina on 14 November 1964 and entered the diplomatic service on 28 March 1969.

He served as First Secretary at the Italian Embassy in Vienna from 1971 to 1974, as Consul at the Italian Consulate in Freiburg from 1974 to 1977, and as Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in Lagos until 1980. After returning to Rome in 1980, he worked in the Directorate General for Political Affairs and in the Department for Development Co-operation.

After leaving his post as Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in London, where he served from 1984 to 1987, he joined the Italian Permanent Mission to NATO in Brussels as Deputy Chief of Mission. Following a period as Diplomatic Advisor in the Ministry of Defence from December 1992 to April 1994, he was called to the position of Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Foreign Minister. From January 1995 to June 1996, he was Chief of Cabinet of the Foreign Minister.