Narciso G. Reyes

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Narciso G. Reyes on a state visit to Romania in 1972

Narciso G. Reyes (born February 2, 1914 in Tondo ; † May 7, 1996 ) was a Filipino diplomat and writer . From 1980 to 1982 he was Secretary General of ASEAN

biography

Diplomatic career

After attending school, he studied at the University of Santo Tomas and graduated in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts (AB) and was then from 1935 to 1937 teacher of the English language at the University of Santo Tomas. At the same time he worked as a journalist and from 1935 to 1941 he was associate editor of the Philippine Commonwealth . He was later from 1939 to 1941 staff member of the Faculty of Tagalog at the Ateneo de Manila University . After serving as Associate Editor of the daily newspaper The Manila Post from 1945 to 1947, he was a member of the editorial board of the Evening News until 1948 .

In 1948 he began his career in government service and was first a member of the Mission to the United Nations until 1954 and then director of the Philippine Information Agency . After serving as counselor at the embassy in Thailand , he was ambassador to Burma from August 1958 to March 1962 . In March 1962 he was appointed ambassador to Indonesia .

He was then Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1966 to 1970 .

Subsequently he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City . In addition, after working as a rapporteur at the office of the UN Human Rights Commission from 1971 to 1972, between 1972 and 1974 he was also Chairman of the Executive Council of UNICEF . He was succeeded in this office by Hans Conzett .

Between 1977 and 1982 he was ambassador to the People's Republic of China .

At the same time, he was the successor to Datuk Ali Bin Abdullah from July 1, 1980 to July 1, 1982 as Secretary General of ASEAN . During his tenure, the ASEAN Secretariat building in Jakarta was inaugurated in May 1981 . Successor as general secretary was Chan Kai Yau .

In 1987 he was named one of the Most Outstanding Manilans .

Writing career

Even before his diplomatic career, Reyes, who was also a member of the literary group The Veronicans, was a well-known Filipino writer and published his first short story, I, The Father . Later, As The Tide (1934), April Again (1935), Genesis (1937), Lost Christmas (1937), Trip to Balete (1937), and Native Land (1943, Lupang Tinubuan), which received critical acclaim.

His better-known publications include The Stream: Selected Stories (1973), which included I, The Father and The Stream as well as the short stories Farmer in the sunset (1934), The long wind and Plighted word . Other works also include Rizal , at iba pang mga piling dula (1940)

In 1984 he received the Manila Panitikan Literature Prize .

In addition to publications on political topics such as Two Views on Summit Three (1986), his memoirs appeared in 1995 under the title Memories of diplomacy: A life in the Philippine foreign service .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Covert Operations and the CIA's Hidden History in the Philippines
  2. ^ Philippine Embassy London
  3. ^ Philippine Permanent Mission to the United Nations
  4. ↑ Bureau of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights ( Memento of the original dated May 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / saipa.us
  5. ^ UNICEF Leadership - The Executive Board
  6. ↑ Philippine Embassy Beijing
  7. ↑ Statement of the ASEAN Secretary-General, HE Narciso G. Reyes, on the Occasion of the Formal Inauguration of the ASEAN Secretariat Building (Jakarta, May 9, 1981)
  8. ^ The ASEAN Secretariat
  9. ↑ THE MANILA BULLETIN: Aquino leads 2010 Outstanding Manilans (June 25, 2010)
  10. ↑ Jonathan Beller: Acquiring eyes: Philippine visuality, nationalist struggle, and the world-media system , p. 32, ISBN 9715504957, 2006
  11. ↑ José García Villa, Jonathan Chua: The critical Villa: essays in literary criticism , ISBN 9715504167, 2002
  12. ↑ Goodreads
  13. ↑ Bilgera, Melchor: Philippine Ripples , p 136, ISBN 9712311813, 1993
  14. ^ Leopoldo Y. Yabes: Philippine short stories, 1925-1940 , p. 218, ISBN 9715420834, 1997
  15. ↑ Leopoldo Y. Yabes, Leopoldo Y. Yabes: Philippine Short Stories, 1941-1955: 1941-1949 , Part 1, pp. 108, 195, ISBN 9715420842, 2010
  16. ^ National Library of Australia
  17. ^ Philippine eLib
  18. ↑ THE MANILA BULLETIN: Our araw ng Maynila (June 27, 2010) ( Memento of July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  19. ^ National Library of Australia
  20. ↑ Goodreads
personal data
SURNAME Reyes, Narciso G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino writer, diplomat and Secretary General of ASEAN
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Tondo
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1996