In a ceremony that was attended by the relatives of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs José Antonio García Belaundethe Foreign Ministry inaugurated a new headquarters that bears his name: Ambassador José Antonio García Belaunde.
The property is located in the first block of the Santa Rosa Jirón in the center of Lima, and with it pays tribute to the missing former chancellor, who had an outstanding diplomatic trajectory and developed a sustained work to boost the institutional strengthening of the Peruvian Foreign Ministry.
The act was headed by Foreign Minister Elmer Schialer, who highlighted the work developed by García Belaunde “so that Torre Tagle is a more modern institution efficient and prepared to meet the objectives of Peruvian foreign policy.”
The minister recalled the diplomat’s work in the creation of the so -called Pacific Arch, a project that, he said – left for Peru to make all Latin America with Pacific coast had a kind of presence in APEC.
“That was Joselo’s idea. And that explained it in Mexico where I had the pleasure of listening to it and seeing that greatness of spirit by projecting foreign policy and integrating all of Latin America,” he said.
García Belaunde, who belonged to a long and remarkable tradition of Peruvian diplomats, died on July 4 in the city of Madrid, Spain. He was a Minister of Foreign Affairs during the second government of Alan García, from July 28, 2006 to July 28, 2011, which made him the only chancellor that held said position during a whole government period.
In that context, he filed the demand for Peruvian maritime delimitation before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, he was an agent of Peru before said international and ambassador of Peru in Spain, charged that he served until October 2018.
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