Rino Serri (23 January 1933 – 6 April 2006) was an Italian Communist politician.

Biography

In the mid-1950s, Serri was in charge of the Reggio Emilia Province in the

Italian Communist Youth Federation The Italian Communist Youth Federation (, FGCI) was the youth wing of the Italian Communist Party (''Partito Comunista Italiano''; PCI), and the direct heir of the Federazione Giovanile Comunista d'Italia of the PCd'I. In 2016 it was refounded ...

. In 1957 he entered the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Youth Federation and from 3 October 1960 to 29 October 1962, he was the National Secretary. From 1963 to 1969 in the PCI he was provincial secretary of

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. From 4 January 1965 to 1970 he was a municipal councilor in Reggio Emilia. In the seventies he became regional secretary of the PCI in

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and in 1979 he entered the

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. In 1987, he became a Senator and held office until 1992 and then again in 1994 . He opposed the dissolution of the PCI and February 3, 1991, became one of the founding fathers of Rifondazione Comunista; in 1995 that group became pasrt of the

Movement of Unitarian Communists The Movement of Unitarian Communists (, MCU), or simply Unitarian Communists (), was a communist political party in Italy. History The party was founded in June 1995 as a split from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) by Communist MPs who ...

(MCU). In 1998 he joined the

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with the MCU. In 1996 he became undersecretary for Foreign Affairs of the

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. Here he dealt mainly with the countries of the Horn of Africa, In 2000 he was a mediator on behalf of the European Union to reconcile Ethiopia and Eritrea, which would happen with the Algiers Agreement. From 1984 to 1989, he also held the position of national president of the Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana (ARCI).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Serri, Rino 1933 births 20th-century Italian politicians Italian Communist Party politicians 2006 deaths