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Sergio Silvio Balanzino (20 June 1934 – 25 February 2018) was an
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross – January 21, 1999
Sergio Silvio Balanzino (20 June 1934 – 25 February 2018) was an Italian
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diplomat
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He studied as a Brittingham Foreign Scholar at the University of Wisconsin
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in Madison 1956–1957. After graduating in Law
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from the University of Rome La Sapienza
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he joined the Italian foreign service in 1958.
He served as the Italian ambassador
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to Canada
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from May 1990 to January 1994. He then became the Deputy Secretary General of NATO
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before briefly becoming acting Secretary General twice. Firstly by replacing Manfred Wörner
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on 13 August 1994 after the latter resigned in the last stages of cancer. On 17 October 1994, he was replaced by Willy Claes
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, who resigned on 20 October 1995 following the discovery of his political corruption
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Balanzino, who had gone back to being Deputy, again took over the reins until he was replaced on 5 December 1995 by Javier Solana
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He taught in the springtime at the Loyola University Chicago Rome Center.
Honours
* Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross – January 21, 1999
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