Jorge Martín Arturo Argüello (born April 20, 1956) is an Argentine politician and diplomat. Argüello served as
Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations between 2007 and 2011. Argüello was also designated Ambassador of
Argentina
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to the
United States
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during two separate terms, from 2011 to 2013 and again from 2019 to 2023. In 2013 was appointed Ambassador of Argentina to
Portugal
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.
Life and public service
Argüello was born in
Córdoba in 1956 as the first of four children by Jorge Marcelo Argüello Varela and Raquel Luque Colombres. He graduated from
Rochester Community High School,
Rochester, Indiana, in 1974, and returned to Argentina, where he enrolled at the
University of Buenos Aires and earned a law degree in 1985.
He later earned a master's degree in Administration and Public Affairs at the
University of San Andrés (Argentina), and authored numerous articles and books on
democratic participation.
Argüello is married to journalist Erika Grinberg, and has a son and three daughters.
He entered public service upon his election in 1987 to the Buenos Aires City Council, and served in the
Argentine Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies (), officially the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, is the lower house of the Argentine National Congress (). It is made up of 257 national deputies who are elected in multi-member constituencies c ...
between 1991 and 1995. Argüello served as
host organizer in 1994 of the first official visit to Argentina of a
British Parliamentary delegation since the
Falklands War
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twelve years earlier, and later represented
Latin America
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countries in the 1994-95 meeting of the
Parliamentarians for Global Action
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. In 1996, he was elected in the convention of Buenos Aires City (Convención Constituyente) called in 1996 to write the Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires. Between 1997 and 2003 he served as deputy of the newly established
Buenos Aires City Legislature in two successive periods (1997-2000 and 2000-2003).
In 2003, Argüello was again elected to the Chamber of Deputies and he became Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and in that capacity organized the office of the Parliamentary Monitor for the
Falkland Islands
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(''Observatorio Parliamentario Cuestión Islas Malvinas''). In 2007, he was appointed by President
Nestor Kirchner as Permanent Representative of Argentina to the
United Nations
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. In that capacity Argüello served as Vice President of the Peace and Security Committee of
Inter-Parliamentary Union in 2006 and 2007.
[ He was Chairman of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization in 2008,][ and president of the Group of 77 and China for their 2011 session. In November 2011, Arguello was designated as Ambassador of Argentina to the United States, and his credentials were formally accepted on 1 December.]
In March 2013, was designated as Ambassador of Argentina to Portugal
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.
International work
• Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU): Vice-President of the First Standing Committee on Peace and International Security Inter-Parliamentary Union (2006-2007)
• Member of the Commission negotiating the External Debt of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (London, 2003)
• Organizer of the first visit after the British Parliamentary conflict Falkland Islands (1994)
• President of "Parliamentarians for Global Action" on behalf of the Latin American countries(1994–95)
• Chairman of the Twinning Buenos Aires - Tel Aviv (Sister Cities, 1989)
• Honors and awards received various international
Academic work
• Georgetown University
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(USA): Member of the Class Advisory Board School of Foreign Service.
• University of Belgrano (Argentina). Member of the Academic Council of the School of Government. Professor of the Chair of the Parliamentary Operation School of Public Officers. Professor of the Chair of Technical Trading Course in Political Science from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences. 1998 - 2003.
• Author of several opinion articles published in national and international media, author, co-author and compiler of books on political participation and citizenship.
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) sovereignty dispute
Argüello has dictated conferences to advance Argentine claims in the Falkland Islands
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sovereignty dispute on several universities.
• Universita di Bologna, Facolta di Scienze, Bologna, Italy
• Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Beijing, China.
• Foundation for International Studies of China, Beijing, China.
• Universita Dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy;
• National Autonomous University of Mexico
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(USE), Mexico;
• Cape Town University, Cape Town, South Africa;
• Academic Centre ADEN Business School, Panama;
• Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand• Jawalharial Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India
• Institute of International Relations "Raúl Roa García", La Habana, Cuba:
• Columbia University
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, New York, USA;
• University of California, Los Angeles
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, USA;
• New School University, New York, USA;
• University of Chicago
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, Illinois, USA
References
External links
Embassy of Argentina in Portugal
Permanent Mission of the Argentine Republic in the United Nations
Observatorio Parlamentario-Cuestión Malvinas
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1956 births
Living people
Diplomats from Buenos Aires
Politicians from Buenos Aires
Argentine people of Spanish descent
University of Buenos Aires alumni
Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires
Justicialist Party politicians
Permanent representatives of Argentina to the United Nations
Ambassadors of Argentina to the United States
Ambassadors of Argentina to Portugal
People from Rochester, Indiana
University of San Andrés alumni
Argentine deputies 2005–2007
Argentine deputies 2003–2005