page_title: Miguel Ángel Moratinos
section_title: Later career
hierarchical_section_title: Miguel Ángel Moratinos / Later career
caption_attribution_description: English: Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu (L) and Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim (C) and Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos (R) at the Alliance of Civilizations forum, in Brazil. Português: O ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros da Turquia, Ahmet Davutoglu, o ministro das Relações Exteriores, Celso Amorim, e o ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros da Espanha, Miguel Angel Moratinos, durante coletiva no 3º Fórum Mundial da Aliança de Civilizações
context_page_description: Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé is a Spanish diplomat and politician, a member of the Socialist Workers' Party and was member of Congress, where he represented Córdoba. Since 7 January 2019 is the UN High-Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations.
context_section_description: In 2010, Moratinos was given a new mission as a special envoy trying to defuse a row between Israel and Egypt that threatened to derail, for the second time, a summit of the Union for the Mediterranean.
  Since 2011, Moratinos has been teaching at Sciences Po Paris. Also in 2011, he was nominated by the Spanish government as a candidate for the position of director general of FAO; as part of his election campaign, he visited 90 countries. However, on June 26 he lost to Brazilian José Graziano da Silva. He received 88 votes out of 180 cast in the second round, while Graziano da Silva won 92.
  In mid-2012, Moratinos was among the candidates at the United Nations for a possible replacement of Kofi Annan as UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria.
  From 2012 to 2013, Moratinos was a member of the High-Level Advisory Council of the President of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Serbia's then foreign minister Vuk Jeremić.
  Following consultations, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Moratinos as his High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations in 2018, succeeding Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser.
caption: Moratinos together with Turkish and Brazilian foreign ministers Davutoğlu and Amorim
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