NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PARAGUAY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
Press Release
BIO/3083
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PARAGUAY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
19970717 Biographical Note Bernardino Hugo Saguier Caballero, the new Permanent Representative of Paraguay to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary- General Kofi Annan. Mr. Saguier, who first held that post from 1991 to 1993, was until his present appointment Ambassador of Paraguay in Chile.An official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1960, Mr. Saguier served, from 1994 to 1996, as Minister of Integration, and from 1993 to 1994 as Minister, Secretary-General and Civilian Principal Private Secretary to the President of the Republic. From 1993 to 1996, he was member of the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, having served from 1989 to 1991, as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. From 1989 to 1993, he was Alternate National Deputy for the Colorado Party.
Mr. Saguier headed Paraguay's delegation to negotiate the Treaty of the Common Market of the Southern Cone (MERCOSUR), and to negotiate an agreement on trade and investment between MERCOSUR member countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) and the United States. He was on several of his country's delegations to sessions of the General Assembly and to meetings of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Rio Group, the River Plate Basin and the Latin American Free Trade and Integration Associations. In May 1992, he was Chairman of the Latin American and Caribbean Group at the United Nations, and in February 1993, Chairman of the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
At the Foreign Ministry, he held such positions as Director Authorized to perform functions in the binational entity of Itaipu (1975-1989); Director of international organizations, treaties and instruments (1970-1975); Chief of Cabinet of the Minister (1968-1970); and Private Secretary to the Minister (1965-1968). Other positions included those of Secretary of the Joint Paraguayan-Argentine Commission on the Parana River (1972-1973); Secretary of the Special Advisory Commission on International Aeronautical and Maritime Law Boundaries (1964-1965 and 1970-1975); and Secretary of the Joint Paraguayan- Argentine Commission on Yacyreta (1962-1963).
Born on 21 July 1945, Mr. Saguier received a degree from the Faculty of Law and Diplomacy of Catholic University of Asuncion in 1974. He later pursued a doctoral course in international relations at the same institution.
He has been a professor of diplomatic and consular law at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; an assistant lecturer on international organizations at Catholic University; and a professor of international public and private law at the Police Academy.
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A 1990 graduate of the National War College of Asuncion, he also studied at the Academy of International Law at The Hague; and took courses in law of treaties and diplomatic and consular relations in Buenos Aires, legal information systems in Brasilia and management at the European Institute of Business Administration in Fontainebleau, France.
He has been decorated by several countries, among them, China, Brazil, South Africa, Argentina, Spain, Ecuador and Chile.
Mr. Saguier is married and has three children.
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