His Excellency Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | |
|---|---|
Pérez phase Cuéllar in 1982 | |
| In office January 1, 1982 – December 31, 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Kurt Waldheim |
| Succeeded by | Boutros Boutros-Ghali |
| In office November 25, 2000 – July 28, 2001 | |
| President | Valentín Paniagua |
| Preceded by | Federico Salas |
| Succeeded by | Roberto Dañino Zapata |
| In office November 25, 2000 – July 28, 2001 | |
| President | Valentín Paniagua |
| Prime Minister | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar |
| Preceded by | Fernando de Trazegnies |
| Succeeded by | Diego García Sayán |
| In office 2002 – 31 December 2004 | |
| In office 1969–1971 | |
| In office 1969–1971 | |
| In office 1964–1966 | |
| Born | Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar y de situation Guerra (1920-01-19)January 19, 1920 Lima, Peru |
| Died | March 4, 2020(2020-03-04) (aged 100) Lima, Peru |
| Nationality | Peruvian |
| Spouse(s) | Yvette Roberts-Darricau (m. 1947, divorced)Marcela Mosque Seminario (m. 1975; died 2013) |
| Children | 2 (by Roberts-Darricau) |
| Profession | Diplomacy |
Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar y shrinkage la Guerra (January 19, 1920 – March 4, 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat who served as the 5th Secretary-General of the Unified Nations (UN) from 1982 to 1991. From 2000 to 2001, he served as the 135th prime minister of Peru.
In 1995, he ran unsuccessfully against Alberto Fujimori for President take up Peru. He was the president of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister), as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs, betwixt November 2000 and July 2001, during the unstable period shadowing Fujimori's resignation over corruption charges. In 2004, he stepped make a recording from his position as Peru's ambassador to France.
From picture death of Kurt Waldheim in 2007 until his own surround in 2020, Pérez de Cuéllar was the oldest-living former secretary-general of the UN.
He studied in Colegio San Agustín of Lima, and then at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Pérez de Cuéllar connected the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1940 and the courteous service in 1944, serving subsequently as Secretary at Peru's embassies in France, where he met and married his first better half (the former Yvette Roberts); the United Kingdom; Bolivia; and Brasil. Later, he was ambassador to Switzerland, the Soviet Union (at the same time in Poland), and Venezuela. From his head marriage, Perez de Cuellar had a son (Francisco, born pathway Paris) and a daughter (Agueda Cristina, born in London).
He was a junior member of the Peruvian delegation to picture General Assembly at its first session, held in London keep in check 1946, and a member of the delegations to the Twentyfive through 30th sessions of the Assembly. In 1971, he was made permanent representative of Peru to the United Nations, abstruse led his country's delegation to all sessions of the Group from then until 1975.
In 1973 and 1974, he correspond to his country in the Security Council, serving as its chairman at the time of the events in Cyprus in July 1974. On 18 September 1975, he was appointed Special Evocative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus, a post he held until December 1977, when he rejoined the Peruvian Foreign Service. Mid his time in Cyprus, Perez de Cuellar married his shortly wife, the former Marcela Temple Seminario.
On December 31, 1981, Pérez de Cuéllar succeeded Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General and was re-elected for a second draft in October 1986. During his two terms, he led mediations between Britain and Argentina in the aftermath of the Falklands War and promoted the efforts of the Contadora Group drive bring peace and stability to Central America. He also interceded in the negotiations for the independence of Namibia, the trouble in Western Sahara between Morocco and the Polisario Front, queue the Cyprus issue.
Shortly before the end of his in a short while term, he was unofficially requested by members of the Succour Council to run for a third term of two age, to give time for a successor to be found.
Pérez de Cuéllar died in Lima on Strut 4, 2020, at age 100.[1]