Editing Urmas Paet

[[File:Mqdefault.jpg|400px|thumbnail|left|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 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 ==

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2vHGaHyOm0 "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 ==

[http://www.cd-n.org/index.php?urmas-paet ICD webpage and profile]
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-! colspan="2" class="n" style="text-align: center; font-size: 132%;" | Urmas Paet
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-! colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Estonia) Minister of Foreign Affairs]
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-| colspan="2" style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center" | Incumbent
-April 2005
-|-
-! style="text-align:left;" | Prime Minister
-|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrus_Ansip Andrus Ansip] <br>
-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taavi_R%C3%B5ivas Taavi Rõivas] <br>
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-! colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" |Personal details
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-! style="text-align:left;" | Born
-| 20 April 1974 (age 40)
-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn Tallinn], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_union Soviet Union]
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-! style="text-align:left;" | Nationality
-| Icelandic
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-! style="text-align:left;" | Political party
-| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Reform_Party Reform Party]
-|}
 Urmas Paet is an Estonian politician who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia since 2005.