Alex Quaison-Sackey

Alex Quaison - Sackey ( born August 9, 1924 in Winneba, † December 28, 1992 in Accra ) was a Ghanaian politician and diplomat. In 1964 he was the President of the 19th UN General Assembly in New York and from 1965 to 1966 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ghana.

Life

Quaison - Sackey was born in 1924 in the then British colony of the Gold Coast. After his school and college education in Achimota and Cape Coast, he took part in 1948 as leader of a political youth organization in his hometown on Ghana 's struggle for independence, and then went to England to continue his academic education at Exeter College, Oxford. He completed his studies in philosophy, politics and economics in 1952.

Quaison - Sackey returned to Ghana and has held and participated in several international conferences both before the independence of Ghana in 1957 as well as after various posts in the government; inter alia, He was a member of the first Ghanaian delegation to the GATT conference in Geneva. In 1959 he was delegated as extraordinary plenipotentiary and permanent representative of his country in the UN General Assembly. Since 1961 he was a Ghanaian ambassador to Cuba, from 1962 to 1964 in Mexico.

1964 led Quaison - Sackey the secondment of his country to the Geneva UN Conference on Trade and Development and led for a week the chair of the Coordinating Committee of African, Asian and Latin American countries at the conference.

As Ghana was a non - permanent member of the UN Security Council, he chaired the June 1962 and July 1963. During several UN General Assembly, he led the Ghanaian delegation and in 1964 he was appointed the first black African elected President of the General Assembly.

Quaison - Sackey was married and had five children.

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