Uruguay will Chair the Code for 2025-2026
4-5 June 2025
On 4 June 2025, Ambassador Alex Wetzig from Chile officially handed over the Chairmanship of The Hague Code of Conduct to Uruguay at the occasion of the 24th Annual Regular Meeting of subscribing states in Vienna. Ambassador Alejandro Garofali will lead the Uruguayan effort for the universalisation of the Code during this coming year.
The new Chair is Ambassador Alejandro Garofali Acosta, Permament Representative of Chile to the United Nations in Vienna and ambassador for Uruguay to Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.
Until September 2024, he was Director for Institutional Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Uruguay. Until 2021 Ambassador of Uruguay to the Swiss Confederation and to the Principality of Liechtenstein, as well as Permanent Representative to the Universal Postal Union, based in Bern
Formerly, he was Ambassador to Ethiopia and Kenya, Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the African Union, the UN Environment Program-UNEP, UN-Habitat and UNECA, resident in Addis Ababa. Since entering foreign service in 1997 until being appointed as ambassador in Africa, he has served in various Uruguayan diplomatic positions in the United States of America, Sweden and other Nordic and Baltic countries, as well as having worked at several directorates of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Montevideo (covering functions in economic, political, regional integration, minister´s office, among others areas).
H.E. Ambassador Dr. Garofali holds a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Law and Economics of Sustainable Development (Catholic University of Ávila, Spain) and a Master in Business Administration and Management (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain). He has a degree in International Relations (University of the Republic, Uruguay) and has completed diplomatic training at the Foreign Service Academy of Uruguay (Artigas Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
He has been a Professor at the ORT University and the Catholic University of Uruguay, and also an Associate Researcher on Latin America at Friedrich Alexander Erlangen University Nuremberg (Germany). Currently, he is the President of the European Institute of International Studies (Stockholm). Dr Garofali is author of several publications in international academic circles and collaboration in institutions such as T20 (G20 network of academic centers and think tanks).
To different degree, he speaks Spanish, English, French, Italian, Swedish, Portuguese, and German.
