Today in Italy--Special service by AGI on behalf of the Italian Prime Minister's office

<a href=www.agi.it>AGI Online NEW ITALIAN AMBASSADORS IN VENEZUELA AND ARMENIA (AGI) - Rome, Italy, May 3 - The new Italian ambassadors to Venezuela and Armenia, who were recently nominated by the Cabinet, have been confirmed.    Here is an outline of the two diplomats: - Gerardo CARANTE, Italian ambassador to Caracas Born in San Salvatore Monferrato (Alexandra) on December 22, 1945, he graduated in law at the University of Genoa in 1968 and in political science at the University of Pavia in 1973. He started his diplomatic career in 1970. In 1986 he was senior advisor at the Permanent Italian Delegation at the United Nations in New York and then in Athens. Back in Rome in 1990 at the General Office for Cultural Relations, in 1992 he left his role to be of service to the prime minister and then to the ministry of justice. In 1993 he was the senior advisor in Moscow. In 1997 he was appointed minister of plenipotentiary and the following year went to the Permanent Italian Delegation at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris as advisory minister. In 2001 he came back to Rome to work in the General Office for economic co-operation and multi-lateral finance. - Marco CLEMENTE, Italian ambassador to Erevan Born in Rome on June 29, 1959, he graduated in political science at the "LUISS" University in Rome in 1984 and began his diplomatic career in 1985. Between 1987 and 1990 he was at Canberra and then Consul in Caracas until 1994, when he returned to the ministry at the General Office for political affairs. From 1999 he was consul general at Johannesburg. In 2002 he was appointed advisor to the embassy. (AGI) 031508 MAG 03