Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (2008)

Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar Guerra (born January 19, 1920 in Lima ; † March 4, 2020 there ) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician . He was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991 and Prime Minister of Peru from 2000 to 2001 .

He was married and had two children.

Career as a diplomat

After studying law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú , he joined the Peruvian Foreign Office in 1940, and in 1944 he switched to the diplomatic service. As a young diplomat he gained experience in Bolivia, Brazil and Great Britain, and in 1961 he returned to the Foreign Office. He was later the Peruvian ambassador to Switzerland (1962–1966), the Soviet Union (1969–1971), Poland and Venezuela . From 1979 he worked for the UN.

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1982)

Secretary General of the United Nations

In 1975 he became the UN special envoy for Cyprus . On January 1, 1982, Pérez de Cuéllar took over the office of Secretary General of the United Nations to succeed Kurt Waldheim and was re-elected for a second term in October 1986. During his two terms in office, he led the mediation between Great Britain and Argentina in the aftermath of the Falklands War and promoted the efforts of the Contadora group for peace and stability in Central America . He also mediated in the negotiations on Namibia's independence , in the Western Sahara conflict and in the Cyprus conflict . His second term as Secretary General ended on December 31, 1991.

Peruvian Prime Minister

In 1994 he founded the Unión por el Perú party , with which he ran in the 1995 presidential and congressional elections. He reached 21.8% of the vote and was defeated by Alberto Fujimori (64.4%). During the turmoil that broke out in Peru after Fujimori's resignation, he temporarily held the post of prime minister from November 2000 to July 2001 . During this time he arranged for the disclosure of telephone spying activities of the Peruvian secret service under Fujimori. Then he was Peruvian Ambassador in Paris until 2004.

Activity as an author

Pérez de Cuéllar (2015)

In addition to a handbook of diplomatic law and his memories of the time as UN Secretary-General and memoirs, Pérez de Cuéllar published a novel at the age of 94, entitled Los Andagoya , in which the life of a family in Lima in the 1930s “with subtle and caustic humor ”.

Manual de Derecho Diplomático (1964, new edition 1998)
Order o anarquía (1992)
Peregrinaje por la paz (1997)
Memorias. Recuerdos personales y políticos (2012)
Los Andagoya (2014)

Honors

1987 honorary citizen of Zagreb

1988 Nobel Peace Prize for the UN peacekeeping force

1989 Olof Palme Prize

1990 Prince of Asturias Prize

1990 Prize of the Alexander Onassis Foundation

1991 gave US President George Bush Perez de Cuellar, the Medal of Freedom ( "The Presidential Medal of Freedom"), the highest civilian honor in the United States.

1991 Spanish civil order "Isabella the Catholic"

1991 Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. Georg

1992 Four Freedoms Award

1992 Grand Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

1993 Order of Merit of Kuwait

Web links

Commons : Javier Pérez de Cuéllar - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Javier Perez de Cuellar in nndb (English)
Literature by and about Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in the catalog of the German National Library
Official biography on un.org .
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

↑ Javier Perez de Cuellar passed away . In: Tages-Anzeiger . ISSN 1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on March 6, 2020]).
↑ Fernando de Trazegnies Granda: Doctorado Honoris Causa del Dr. Javier Perez de Cuellar . In: Derecho PUCP . No. 46 , December 1, 1992, ISSN 2305-2546 , pp. 377–388 ( edu.pe [accessed March 5, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Rolf Seeler: Peru and Bolivia - Indian cultures, Inca ruins and the baroque colonial splendor of the Andean states . In: DuMont art travel guide . 1st edition. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-4786-3 , p. 119 .
↑ UNIÓN POR EL PERÚ. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
↑ Peru Elecciones Generales 1995. Jurado Nacionale de Elecciones / Fundación Internacional para sistemas electorales, 1995, p. 16 , accessed on March 5, 2020 .
↑ tagesschau.de : Ex-UN Secretary General Pérez de Cuéllar has died. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
↑ Pérez de Cuellar publica su primera novela “Los Andagoya”, a los 94 años , in Diario Correo , September 24, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cuéllar Guerra, Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Peruvian diplomat and politician, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1982–1991) and author
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lima
DATE OF DEATH	4th March 2020
Place of death	Lima

[1] Javier Perez de Cuellar passed away . In: Tages-Anzeiger . ISSN 1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on March 6, 2020]).

[2] Fernando de Trazegnies Granda: Doctorado Honoris Causa del Dr. Javier Perez de Cuellar . In: Derecho PUCP . No. 46 , December 1, 1992, ISSN 2305-2546 , pp. 377–388 ( edu.pe [accessed March 5, 2020]).

[:0-3] Rolf Seeler: Peru and Bolivia - Indian cultures, Inca ruins and the baroque colonial splendor of the Andean states . In: DuMont art travel guide . 1st edition. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-4786-3 , p. 119 .

[4] UNIÓN POR EL PERÚ. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .

[5] Peru Elecciones Generales 1995. Jurado Nacionale de Elecciones / Fundación Internacional para sistemas electorales, 1995, p. 16 , accessed on March 5, 2020 .

[6] tagesschau.de : Ex-UN Secretary General Pérez de Cuéllar has died. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .

[7] Pérez de Cuellar publica su primera novela “Los Andagoya”, a los 94 años , in Diario Correo , September 24, 2014.