1967 - 1980

In 1969 Luigi Vittorio was transferred to Rome, where he was assigned to the Directorate General of Political Affairs and was in charge of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).

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Preparation for the CSCE involves intensive activity and frequent missions abroad, including with Ambassador Roberto Ducci. From the beginning of the conference in November 1972, this participation requires long stays in Helsinki first and then in Geneva between 1972 and 1975 as Deputy Head of the Italian Delegation. Years of intense work with numerous trips that forced him away from his family even for long periods. This work would flow into the volume “Testimonies of a Negotiation,” to this day still considered one of the main reference texts on the negotiations at the Helsinki Conference. 

 

Between 1975 and 1977 Luigi Vittorio accepted the post of Deputy Director General for Cultural Relations together with Ambassador Vittorio Cordero di Montezemolo, where he dealt with regulations in the educational and academic spheres and was engaged in a number of missions abroad including, significant for him, those in the German Democratic Republic and Canton Ticino. He was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary Second Class on December 22, 1972 and Minister Plenipotentiary First Class on June 3, 1977.

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At the suggestion of then Minister Boris Biancheri Chiappori, Secretary General Raimondo Manzini assigned him the General Directorate of Personnel. Luigi Vittorio filled his role with great determination even with respect to the union control then prevailing. His work is considered energetic and such that it left a mark: his determination and authority is recognized, thanks to which he obtained wide decision-making autonomy.

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From 1978 to 1982, Luigi Vittorio was appointed chairman of the First Commission of the Higher Council of Public Administration. In the meantime from the end of 1977 he took up a teaching position in Eastern European Political Institutions at the Oriental Institute in Naples, at the initiative of then Dean Luigi Ferrari Bravo and with the consent of Prof. Rita Di Leo. He held regular lectures despite commuting between Rome and Naples until he regretfully had to resign in 1983 due to incompatibility with Civil Service regulations.

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