José Antonio García Belaunde is a
Peru
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vian career
diplomat
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, who served as Foreign Minister during the
Second Presidency of Alan Garcia from 2006 to 2011, making him the only Foreign Affairs Minister to serve a complete term. On August 2, 2011, his successor in office,
Rafael Roncagliolo announced his appointment as Peru's co-agent before the Court of The Hague.
In 2016, President Pedro Pablo Kuczinsky appointed him
Ambassador to Spain where he served until 2018, when he assumed the post of Representative to Europe for the CAF-Latin American Development Bank.
Early life and education
García Belaunde was born in
Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...
on 16 March 1948. He is the son of distinguished jurist Domingo García Rada, who presided the Supreme Court (1967-1968) and grandson of Victor Andrés Belaunde, Peruvian diplomat who was President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. His brother,
Victor Andrés García Belaunde, is a former Congressman and politician and his uncle, Fernando Belaunde Terry was elected President of Peru twice.
He studied at
Colegio de la Inmaculada in Lima and then in Colegio Winnetka. He studied Literature and Linguistics at
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
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, where he became a close friend of President
Alan García
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez (; 23 May 1949 – 17 April 2019) was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru
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. He earned a
Post Graduate Diploma
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in
Foreign Policy
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from the
University of Oxford
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, and also attended the Diplomatic Academy of Peru, graduating with a
BA in International Relations. He holds a Master's Degree in International Relations, International Law and International Economics at
Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset in Madrid.
Career
In July 2006, García Belaunde became Peru's Minister of Foreign Affairs. During his mandate, Peru submitted a maritime delimitation dispute with Chile to the
International Court of Justice in The Hague. The ruling was mostly favorable to Peru. It is to be noted that prior to the final decision of the ICJ, Peru signed a maritime delimitation agreement with Ecuador. He recounts his experiences in "El largo camino a La Haya", published in El Comercio, Lima, 29 enero, 2014. http://3.elcomercio.e3.pe/doc/0/0/8/1/7/817213.pdf
Peru also finalized a Free Trade Agreement with the United States which was approved by Congress, and also signed FTAs with the European Union, China, Japan, et al. With President García's leadership, he launched the Alianza del Pacífico, the most successful initiative in terms of regional integration in Latin America. He negotiated with
Yale University
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the recuperation of prehispanic pottery and artifacts from Machu Picchu that had been lent to the university one hundred years before. Also during this period, Peru was a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (2006-2007).
Diplomatic career
He has served at the Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations, as well as in the embassies in France, Mexico, Spain, Ecuador, the United States of America and the Latin American Free Trade Association, ALADI, in Uruguay. He also served as Director-Secretario and Director General at the
Comunidad Andina de Naciones (1990-2006).
Academic activities
He has been a lecturer at the
Academia Diplomática del Perú
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and at the
Instituto de Gobierno y Gestión Pública de la
Universidad de San Martín de Porres
Universidad (Spanish for "university") may refer to:
Places
* Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico
* Universidad (Madrid)
Football clubs
* Universidad SC, a Guatemalan football club that represents the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
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. He prologued and edited Política Exterior Peruana. Teoría y práctica, by Carlos García Bedoya, Mosca Azul Editores, Lima, 1981, and wrote "Carlos García Bedoya: el primer decenio", Mosca Azul Editores, Lima, 1993.
He published "Dos siglos de desafíos en la política exterior peruana" as part of the Colección Nudos de la República, Biblioteca Bicentenario, Lima, 2021.
References
List of his Diplomatic posts
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Peruvian people of Spanish descent
People from Lima
1948 births
Living people
Permanent Representatives of Peru to the United Nations
Foreign ministers of Peru
Peruvian diplomats
Ambassadors of Peru to Uruguay
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit