Manuel Pérez-Guerrero

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Manuel Pérez-Guerrero (born September 18, 1911 in Caracas , † October 24, 1985 ibid) was a Venezuelan diplomat and politician who was second secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from March 1969 to March 1974 .

Life

Employees of the League of Nations and the UN

After attending school, he first studied political science at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and graduated with a doctorate . He completed a subsequent postgraduate course in economics at the University of Paris with graduation . Subsequently, between 1937 and 1938 he worked in the economic and financial department of the League of Nations in Geneva .

After his return to Venezuela, he was, among other things, Executive Secretary of the Import Commission in the Ministry of Finance from 1940 to 1942 and, in 1943, a member of the Foreign Ministry's commission of inquiry into problems in the post-war period. In the 1940s he participated as a Venezuelan delegate to the Economic and Financial Conferences of Hot Springs in 1943 and Bretton Woods in 1944 and was also a representative of his country to the Conference of San Francisco between April and June 1945, which established the United Nations led and was subsequently one of the first advisers to the UN on questions of peace and development.

Minister in Venezuela and UNCTAD Secretary General

In February 1948 he was appointed finance minister by President Rómulo Gallegos and held this office until Gallegos was overthrown by the military coup of November 24, 1948. He then returned to the UN and was Executive Secretary of the technical assistance program for developing countries . After finishing this activity, however, he did not return to his home country because of the political situation, but lived in exile in Cairo from 1953 to 1957 and then between 1957 and 1959 in Tunis and Morocco .

After President Rómulo Betancourt took office , he returned to Venezuela in 1959 and was initially director of the Office for Coordination and Planning (CORDIPLAN) before working for the UN in 1963 as a representative of a program for economic and social development in Algeria .

In 1964 he returned to Venezuela and was appointed Minister of Mines and Hydropower by the new President Raúl Leoni and created a regulation of service contracts to strengthen the state's participation in companies, which became the basis for the petroleum company Petróleos de Venezuela and for the use of hydropower plants .

After he resigned in 1967, he worked again for the United Nations and headed a mission to negotiate the political situation in Yemen after the fall of the United Arab States and the establishment of the People's Republic of Yemen on November 30, 1967. He then became permanent representative of Venezuela at the UN.

In March 1969 he succeeded Dr. Raúl Prebisch Secretary General of UNCTAD and held this position for five years until he was replaced by Gamani Corea in March 1974.

Afterwards, during the first term of office of President Carlos Andrés Pérez, he was Minister of State for International Economic Affairs of Venezuela and held this office from 1974 to 1979. At the same time, from 1975 to 1977 he was Co-President of the Conference for Economic Cooperation based in Paris , the so-called Northern South Conference . As chairman of the Group of 77 , Pérez Guerrero was one of the leading spokesmen in the Third World between 1977 and 1979 in the negotiations on a new international economic order.

From 1979 to 1984 he was an advisor to President Luís Herrera Campíns on international economic issues , before serving as Minister of State for International Economic Affairs in the government of Jaime Lusinchi from 1984 until his death on October 24, 1985 .

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SURNAME Pérez-Guerrero, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Caracas
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1985
Place of death Caracas