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5 unusual facts about Juan Manuel Santos


Basit Igtet

On 25 August 2011, Igtet met with the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos at the Nariño Palace (Casa de Nariño) to lobby for official recognition of the NTC.

Beckley Foundation

Signatories of the letter now include the current Presidents of Colombia (Juan Manuel Santos) and Guatemala (Otto Pérez Molina), and former Presidents of the United States (Jimmy Carter), Mexico, Colombia and Switzerland, as well as Nobel Prize winners and numerous other world figures.

Colombia–Russia relations

Defense minister (and future president) Juan Manuel Santos arrived in Russia on Oct. 6 to attend an Interpol police conference and meet with his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov, along with Colombia's Ambassador to Russia, Diego José Tobón Echeverri.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

In 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia expressed the country's willingness to join the organization during a speech at the OECD headquarters.

Richard H. Griffiths

On 25 August 2011, President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos met with Special Envoy Igtet at the Nariño Palace (Casa de Nariño).


Adam Hock

On August 25, 2011, Hock and Igtet met with the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, at Casa de Nariño to lobby for official recognition of the NTC.

Orlando Sardi de Lima

An agricultural engineer from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Sardi has also served as President of Proexport from 1998 to 2000, and has been in the directives of various private and public firms including Winchester Oil & Gas, Comagro, Banco Ganadero S.A, Bancóldex, and the Colombian Institute of Agricultural Marketing (Idema), he also worked in the presidential campaigns of Andrés Pastrana Arango, and Juan Manuel Santos.


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