About Giorgio Giacomelli
Lived 1930 – 2017 (aged 87). Giorgio Giacomelli was an Italian diplomat.
Giorgio Giacomelli (; 25 January 1930 – 8 February 2017) was an Italian diplomat who represented Italy as ambassador to Somalia and Syria. He was UNRWA's Commissioner-General from 1985 to 1991 and UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories from 1999 to 2001.
Biography A native of Milan, Giacomelli studied at the University of Padua, the University of Cambridge and the Geneva Graduate Institute.
He was the Italian ambassador to Somalia from 1973 to 1976 and ambassador to Syria from 1976 to 1980. In 1981 he became Director-General for Emigration and Social Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then, until October 1985, Director–General of the Department of Cooperation and Development. From 1985 to 1991 he was Commissioner-General of UNWRA.
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Italian diplomat (1930-2017)
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Giorgio Giacomelli was born on 25 January 1930 in Milan.
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Giorgio Giacomelli died on 8 February 2017 in Rome.
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Giorgio Giacomelli was Italian.
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