Urmas Paet

Urmas Paet gives a lecture entitled "The Complex Relationship between the Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal Court. Can it Succeed?" at the The Reykjavík Congress on Human Rights 2013 Norðurljós, Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center (Iceland, Reykjavík, April 10th - 13th, 2013)

Urmas Paet
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent 12 April 2005
Prime Minister	Andrus Ansip Taavi Rõivas
Personal details
Born	20 April 1974 (age 40) Tallinn, Soviet Union
Nationality	Icelandic
Political party	Reform Party

Urmas Paet is an Estonian politician who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia since 2005.

Biography

He is a member of the Estonian Reform Party. As of September 2010, Paet has been the longest serving minister since the re-establishment of Estonian independence. He was active in journalism when undertaking his studies and continued in that career until 1999 when he entered politics by joining the Reform Party and becoming a professional advisor. In 2003, when the Juhan Parts government took office, Paet became Estonian Minister of Culture. Since 2005, when the Andrus Ansip cabinet took office, he has been Foreign Minister. He speaks Estonian, German, Finnish and English.

Education

He graduated from the University of Tartu in 1996 with a BA in political science and continued his graduate studies there, but without obtaining the degree.

Further Information

"The Complex Relationship between the Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal Court. Can it Succeed?" A Lecture by Dr. Urmas Paet, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia The Reykjavík Congress on Human Rights 2013 Norðurljós, Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center (Iceland, Reykjavík, April 10th - 13th, 2013)

External Links and References

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