Víctor Andrés Belaúnde - Lima, Peru
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The monument to Peruvian writer, diplomat and politician, Víctor Andrés Belaúnde, stands in front of the Office of Public Defender of Peru in Plazuela San Pedro in Central Lima.
Waymark Code: WM11JHV
Location: Peru
Date Posted: 11/01/2019
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The monument was inaugurated in 1985 by Mayor Alfonso Barrantes Lingán. The life-size bronze statue on a tall pedestal shows Víctor Andrés Belaúnde wearing a nice suit, his gaze fixed on his raised right hand and holding a book in his other hand.
"Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco (15 December 1883 – 14 December 1966) was a Peruvian diplomat who chaired the fourteenth session and the fourth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly (1959–1960).
Belaúnde was born in Arequipa, Peru. After receiving his early education there at the Escuela San Vicente and San José (Colegio San José), he decided to study law at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa and later transferred to finish his studies at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. In addition to receiving his law degree, he also obtained doctorates in political sciences and administration and in literature in 1911.
Among the positions Belaúnde occupied throughout his professional career were: Secretary of the File of Limits of the Ministry of External Relations of Peru, becoming Secretary in the Diplomatic Mission to Spain and Argentina, Consultant in the bordering negotiations with Brazil, Chargé d'affaires in Germany (1914) and Bolivia (1945), Plenipotentiary Secretary in Uruguay in 1919, Colombia in 1934 and in Switzerland in 1936, President of the Peruvian delegation before the League of Nations (1945), where he had the opportunity of subscribing the San Francisco Letter, which gave origin to the Organization of the United Nations, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations (1959), Rector pro tempore (1946–1947) and finally Rector of the Catholic University of Peru (1965).
He also lectured on Hispanic-American culture throughout various universities in the United States while in exile, such as Columbia University, University of Miami (Doctor honoris causa), and the University of Chicago. In 1930 he delivered the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History at Johns Hopkins University. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1944.
He died in New York City."
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