Carlos Ozores Typaldos (7 August 1940 – 11 March 2016) was a
Panamanian politician and diplomat who served as
First Vice President of Panama
The vice president of Panama is the second-highest political position in the Government of Panama. Since 2009, the position of Vice President has been held by only one person.
Before 1945 there were positions of presidential designates elected ...
twice in 1984, and in 1989.
Son of Renato Ozores and Rita Irene Typaldos Duque, he was born in
Panama City (c. August 7, 1940). After he graduated from law he achieved in Italy a
PhD in International Law. In 1969, he returned to Panama and the following year began his diplomatic career as vice chancellor and
foreign minister
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.
He was among the diplomats of the Panamanian delegation to the
Torrijos-Carter Treaties two
treaties signed by the
United States and Panama in
Washington, D.C., on September 7, 1977, which abrogated the
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903. The treaties guaranteed that Panama would gain control of the
Panama Canal after 1999, ending the control of the canal that the U.S. had exercised since 1903.
In 1981, he signed with his counterpart,
Colombia
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n foreign Minister Diego Uribe Vargas, the Treaty of Montería, which provided the rights of Colombia for the Canal traffic. He was appointed
ambassador
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to the
United Nations from 1981 to 1983, where in November 1982 he served as
President of the United Nations Security Council.
After a short period as a Minister for the
Government of Panama and a first term as the Vice President of Panama in 1984,
he resumed his diplomatic career and was Panamaian ambassador to
Spain,
Canada, and later, after a period of political inactivity, to Colombia. Ozores served as the Vice President of Panama again in 1989. He was also secretary of the
Democratic Revolutionary Party.
References
1940 births
2016 deaths
People from Panama City
Permanent Representatives of Panama to the United Nations
Ambassadors of Panama to Canada
Ambassadors of Panama to Spain
Ambassadors of Panama to Colombia
Vice presidents of Panama
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