NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PARAGUAY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF PARAGUAY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
20000113 Biographical Note(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)
The new permanent representative of Paraguay to the United Nations, Jorge Lara-Castro, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
A professor and administrator for 25 years prior to his appointment, Mr. Lara-Castro, at the Universidad Católica in Asunción, directed the social science programme from 1997 to 1999 and was a Professor on the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences from 1992 to 1998.
Prior to that, he was a tenured research professor at the Centre for Economic Research and Teaching in Mexico City (1980-1991), during which time he was also director of the postgraduate programme in international economics and politics (1981-1984), and the postgraduate programme in economic planning for social development (1985-1988). Earlier, he was a professor of social science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1979-1981) and a professor of constitutional law at the Universidad Católica, Asunción (1974-1975).
Mr. Lara-Castro earned his bachelors degree in legal science from the Universidad Católica in 1970 and his masters degree in sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Mexico City, in 1978. His research and writings have been published in a variety of journals, on such topics as capitalism in Brazil, the birth of the campesino movement, Latin American political systems, and education and human rights in Paraguay.
Born in Asunción on 5 August 1945, Mr. Lara-Castro is married.
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