Indalecio Liévano

Indalecio Liévano Aguirre (born July 24, 1917 in Bogotá , † March 29, 1982 ibid) was a Colombian politician, diplomat and historian. From 1974 to 1978 he was Foreign Minister of Colombia and 1978/1979 President of the 33rd General Assembly of the United Nations .

Liévano Aguirre received his doctorate in law as well as in social and economic sciences before he joined the foreign service in his home country in 1946. He represented his home country at numerous international conferences and organizations such as GATT and OAS .

In the 1960s he was elected to the Colombian House of Representatives, which he served until he moved to the Senate in 1970. In 1974 he became foreign minister of his home country, he was also appointed deputy of the Colombian president, he took the office of the president several times until 1978, if the respective incumbent was temporarily unable to do so. Shortly after the election as President of the UN General Assembly in the late summer of 1978, Liévano Aguirre resigned from his ministerial office to become permanent representative of Colombia to the UN in New York after his presidential term. He held this office until his death in 1982.

In addition to his political career, Liévano Aguirre was active as a journalist; he published the newspaper E1 Liberal , was a regular author of various newspapers and magazines in his home country and wrote numerous works on the South American independence movement in the 18th and early 19th centuries as well as biographies on the leaders of the movement.

Selection of works

• " Bolívar "; 1974; ISBN 958-28-1252-4
• “ España y las luchas sociales del Nuevo Mundo ”; 1972
• " Los grandes conflictos sociales y económicos de nuestra historia "; 1962

Web links

• Biography with photo of Liévano Aguirre on un.org (as of 1979) ( English )