Francesco Paolo Fulci (19 March 1931 – 21 January 2022) was an Italian diplomat who served as Ambassador to the United Nations.

During his long diplomatic career, Ambassador Fulci served his country in other important world capitals, including New York City, Moscow, Paris, and Tokyo.

[1] At the UN, he co-founded, with the Ambassadors of Egypt, Mexico and Pakistan, the so-called Coffee Club, a powerful lobby of countries formed in the early 1990s to oppose the expansion of the permanent membership of the Security Council, and push for the enlargement of non-permanent seats.

The Coffee Club was recently revived by Italy and Pakistan under the name of Uniting for Consensus to block a renewed bid by Germany, India, Japan, and Brazil to obtain a permanent seat in the Council.

[2] In his capacity as president of the Economic and Social Council, Ambassador Fulci underlined in a "Manifesto on Poverty Eradication" ten priorities: they were later enshrined in the UN Millennium Declaration and in the UN Millennium Development Goals, adopted in September 2000, as well as in the "Monterrey Consensus" of 2002, at the end of the International Conference on Financing for Development.