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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra (born
January 19,
1920, in
Lima) is a
Peruvian
diplomat who served as the fifth
Secretary-General of the
United Nations from
January 1 1982 to
December 31 1991. He studied in
Colegio San Agustín of Lima, and then at
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In 1995, he ran unsuccessfully against
Alberto Fujimori for
President of Peru. He was
President of the Council of Ministers, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 2000 until July 2001, during the turbulent period following Fujimori's resignation over corruption charges. In September 2004, he stepped down from his position as Peru's
Ambassador to
France, where he formerly resided. He currently resides in
Johor Bahru,
Malaysia where he can be seen walking alone or with a group of friends at a park in the evenings at Taman Pelangi Indah. With the death of
Kurt Waldheim in June 2007, he became the oldest former Secretary General of the United Nations.
Diplomatic career
Pérez de Cuéllar joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1940 and the diplomatic service in 1944, serving subsequently as Secretary at Peru's embassies in
France, where he met and married his first wife, the former Yvette Roberts; the
United Kingdom,
Bolivia, and
Brazil. He later served as ambassador to
Switzerland, the
Soviet Union, (concurrently in
Poland), and
Venezuela. From his first marriage, Mr. Perez de Cuellar has a son, (Francisco, b. Paris), and a daughter, Agueda Cristina (b. London).
He was a junior member of the Peruvian delegation to the
General Assembly at its first session - held in London in 1946-, and a member of the delegations to the 25th through 30th sessions of the Assembly. In 1971, he was appointed permanent representative of Peru to the United Nations, and he led his country's delegation to all sessions of the Assembly from then until 1975.
In 1973 and 1974, he represented his country in the
Security Council, serving as its President at the time of the events in
Cyprus in July 1974. On
18 September 1975, he was appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus – a post he held until December 1977-, when he rejoined the Peruvian Foreign Service. During his time in Cyprus, Mr. Perez de Cuellar married his current wife, the former Marcela Temple Seminario, with whom he's no children.
On
27 February 1979, he was appointed as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. From
April 1981, while still holding this post, he acted as the Secretary-General's Personal Representative on the situation relating to
Afghanistan. In that capacity, he visited
Pakistan and Afghanistan in April and August of that year in order to continue the negotiations initiated by the Secretary-General some months earlier.
United Nations Secretary-General
On
December 31 1981, Pérez de Cuéllar succeeded
Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General and was re-elected for a second term in October 1986. During his two terms, he led mediations between
Britain and
Argentina in the aftermath of the
Falklands War and promoted the efforts of the
Contadora Group to bring peace and stability to
Central America. He also interceded in the negotiations for the independence of
Namibia, the conflict in
Western Sahara between
Morocco and the
Polisario Front, and the Cyprus issue. Shortly before the end of his second term, he was unofficially requested by members of the Security Council to reconsider his earlier decision not to run for a third term, albeit shortened to two years, as a search for his successor had not, as of then, yielded a consensus candidate. Mr. Pérez de Cuéllar graciously declined the offer once a candidate was found, in late December of 1991, his second term as Secretary-General concluding, as scheduled, on
December 31, 1991.
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