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| José Antonio García Belaunde | |
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| Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru | |
| In office 28 July 2006 – 28 July 2011 | |
| President | Alan García |
| Preceded by | Óscar Maúrtua |
| Succeeded by | Rafael Roncagliolo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | José Antonio García Belaunde (1948-03-16) March 16, 1948 (age 76) Lima, Peru |
| Nationality |  Peruvian |
| Political party | Independent |
| Residence(s) | Lima, Peru |
| Profession | Diplomat, Politician |
José Antonio García Belaunde (born March 16, 1948) is a Peruvian career diplomat, 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 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, Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde, 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 Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he became a close friend of President Alan García. He earned a Post Graduate Diploma in Foreign Policy from the University of Oxford, 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 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 and at the Instituto de Gobierno y Gestión Pública de la Universidad de San Martín de Porres. 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
- "Ratificación de equipo ante La Haya consolida defensa del Perú, destaca García Belaunde". 2014-09-11. Archived from the original on 2014-09-11. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
- "Membership of the Security Council". archive.is. 2012-06-29. Archived from the original on 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
- . 2007-05-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20070513115653/http://www.rree.gob.pe/portal/Multi.nsf/f2c7ac601ae05f69052571fd005fab88/33bdadba0bce02010525729e0055631d/$FILE/RREE%2027NOV.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-05-13. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- Peruvian people of Spanish descent
- Politicians from Lima
- 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