Didier Opertti

{{No footnotes|date=August 2023}} {{short description|Uruguayan political figure and lawyer (born 1937)}} [[Image:Opertti.jpg|thumb|Opertti in 2005]] '''Didier Opertti Badán''' (born 23 April 1937) is a [[Uruguay]]an political figure and lawyer.

==Political offices in Uruguay==

===Interior Minister===

Opertti served as the [[Ministry of the Interior (Uruguay)|interior minister]] of [[Uruguay]] from 1995 to 1998 in the government of [[Julio María Sanguinetti]].

===Foreign minister=== Opertti subsequently served as [[Ministry of Foreign Relations (Uruguay)|Minister of Foreign Relations]] under both Presidents Sanguinetti and subsequently [[Jorge Batlle]] from 1998 until 1 March 2005.

==Other offices==

He served as the [[president of the United Nations General Assembly]] from 1998 to 1999.

As of 2006, he serves as [[Secretary-General]] of [[ALADI]].

==See also==

* [[Politics of Uruguay]]

==External links== *{{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/19991005144126/http://serpiente.dgsca.unam.mx/cinu/ag/ag1.htm Biography] *[https://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1998/issue4/498p7.htm Interview] ''([[United Nations Chronicle]])'' {{s-start}} {{s-dip}} {{succession box|before=[[Hennadiy Udovenko]]|title=[[President of the United Nations General Assembly]]|years=1998–1999|after=[[Theo-Ben Gurirab]]}} {{s-end}} {{Presidents of the UN General Assembly}}

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