Bruno Stagno Ugarte
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Bruno Stagno Ugarte was the Minister of Foreign Relations of Costa Rica
Costa Rica
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 from 2006 to 2010 and was the president of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court
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 (ICC) from 2005 to 2008.

Stagno became Costa Rica's permanent ambassador to the United Nations
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 in August 2002. In 2005, he succeeded Jordan
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'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
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 of Liechtenstein
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. 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
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, Georgetown University
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, and the University of Paris
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