José García Belaúnde

José Antonio García Belaúnde ( born March 16, 1948 in Lima) is a Peruvian diplomat and politician.

Biography

Family, study and diplomatic career

García Belaúnde comes from an influential politician and diplomat family in Peru. García Belaúndes great grandfather Mariano A. Belaúnde was finance minister. His grandfather Víctor Andrés Belaúnde was among others from 1959 to 1960 President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Victor Andrés Beláundes brother Rafael Diez Canseco Belaúnde, his great-uncle, was Prime Minister of Peru from 1945 to 1946. His uncle Fernando Belaúnde Terry was twice President of Peru. Víctor Andrés García His younger brother is finally Belaúnde currently a Member of Congress.

After attending school at the Colegio Inmaculada and Colegio Winnetka he studied literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. After a further study on the Peruvian Diplomatic Academy ( Academia Diplomatica del Perú ), which he finished with a degree in International Relations, he completed a postgraduate course in foreign policy at the University of Oxford. After his return, he was initially 1971-1973 a professor at the Peruvian Diplomatic Academy.

In 1973 he entered the diplomatic service and was until 1976 first runner-up and then First Secretary at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations. After that, he was First Secretary at the Embassy in France and then from 1978 to 1979 at the Embassy in Mexico.

Upon his return to Peru, he was first chief of the Technical Cabinet of the then Foreign Minister Carlos Garcia Bedoya, and again between 1979 and 1981 Professor at the Diplomatic Academy. At the same time he was in 1980 briefly Director of Economic Affairs in the Foreign Ministry. From 1981 to 1982 he worked as a General for Trade Agreements in the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Trade. In 1982 he was appointed Counsellor at the Embassy in Spain and then from 1984 to 1985 at the Embassy in Ecuador. He was then ambassador at the embassy in the United States before he was 1986-1988 Ambassador to the Latin American Integration Association ( LAIA ) in Montevideo.

After he returned to Peru in 1988, he was Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and Inclusion at the Foreign Ministry.

Activity for the Andean Community and Foreign Minister

In 1990, he began working at today's Andean Community ( Comunidad Andina de Naciones ), during which he. To 2006 first director of the General Secretariat of the Cartagena Agreement After the establishment of the Andean Community in 1997 by the Protocol of Trujillo, he was General Director and Assessor of the Community General. 2002 he was appointed professor of government entities at the Universidad de San Martín de Porres in Lima. Between 2002 and 2006 he was there also coordinator of the Masters Degree in International Relations.

On 28 July 2006 President Alan García appointed him as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Publications

Professor García Belaúnde was also not just a columnist, but also the author of several essays and monographs that dealt firstly with personalities of Peru, on the other hand with the political situation in Latin America. These include:

• " Grupo Andino: situación actual del proceso de integración ", 1993
• " Víctor Andrés Belaúnde y Alberto Ulloa, dos figuras internacionales ", 1993
• " El primer Decenio. Carlos García Bedoya. Una visión desde los años 90 ", 1993
• " La integración fronteriza peruana - ecuatoriana ", 1994
• " Relaciones con el Perú Ecuador ", 1994
• " La Comunidad Andina. Hacia un liderazgo político ", 1996
• " El Perú en el Grupo Andino 1992-1997: Los años difíciles ", 1997
• " El Protocolo de Trujillo y la transformación institucional de la Integración andina ", 1997
• " Nuevo Milenio: Nuevo Orden ¿ ¿ Nueve Estado? ", 1999