Bruno Stagno Ugarte was the Minister of Foreign Relations of Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

 from 2006 to 2010 and was the president of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court

International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression .It came into being on 1 July 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the...

 (ICC) from 2005 to 2008.

Stagno became Costa Rica's permanent ambassador to the United Nations

United Nations

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 in August 2002. In 2005, he succeeded Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

's Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein and became the second president of the Assembly of States Parties of the ICC. Stagno's term at the ICC expired in 2008, and he was succeeded by Christian Wenaweser

Christian Wenaweser

Christian Wenaweser is a Liechtenstein diplomat.Since 2002, Wenaweser has been the Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the United Nations. In 2008, Wenaweser was elected to a three-year term as the president of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court. In this...

 of Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein

The Principality of Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine country in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. Its area is just over , and it has an estimated population of 35,000. Its capital is Vaduz. The biggest town is Schaan...

. Stagno became the Minister of Foreign Relations of Costa Rica on 8 May 2006 and served for a full four-year term under President Oscar Arias Sanchez.

Stagno has academic degrees from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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, and the University of Paris

University of Paris

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External links

• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Government: Costa Rica, exxun.com, accessed 2008-04-16