page_title: Aldo Moro
section_title: Minister of Foreign Affairs
hierarchical_section_title: Aldo Moro / Minister of Foreign Affairs
caption_attribution_description: English: Aldo Moro in 1968
context_page_description: Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro was an Italian statesman and a prominent member of the Christian Democracy. He served as 38th Prime Minister of Italy from December 1963 to June 1968 and then from November 1974 to July 1976.
  Moro also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 1969 to July 1972 and again from July 1973 to November 1974; during his ministry he implemented a pro-Arab policy, which characterised Italy during the 1970s and the 1980s. Moreover, he was appointed Minister of Justice and of Public Education during the 1950s. From March 1959 until January 1964, Moro served as secretary of the Christian Democracy. On 16 March 1978 he was kidnapped by the far-left terrorist group Red Brigades and killed after 55 days of captivity.
  He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, leading the country for more than six years. An intellectual and a patient mediator, especially in the internal life of his own party, during his rule, Moro implemented a series of social and economic reforms which deeply modernized the country.
context_section_description: In the 1968 DC's congress, Moro yielded the Secretariat and passed to internal opposition. On 5 August 1969, he was appointed Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs by Prime Minister Mariano Rumor, a position that he also held under the premierships of Emilio Colombo and Giulio Andreotti.
caption: Aldo Moro in 1968
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