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Christian Guillermet-Fernández

Guillermet-Fernández, Christian

Guillermet-Fernández, Christian

Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations, Geneva

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Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations, Geneva

Ambassador Christian Guillermet-Fernández is a diplomat of the Costarican foreign service with a broad experience in multilateral affairs. He is the Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations in Geneva. During his diplomatic career, he also served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations in New York and as the political coordinator to the UN Security Council during the last membership of Costa Rica to this important body of the UN. He was the regional representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for Latin America, Director General for Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica and he served at the Office of Ombudsperson of Costa Rica. He is the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the UN Open Ended Working Group on the right to peace. He studied law and international relations. He has extensively written articles on human rights, peace and development for prestigious legal peer-reviewed journals in Russia, Spain, Japan, Turkey, Sweden, United Kingdom and Italy.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

The 70th Anniversary of the creation of the United Nations: Giving Peace a Chance
 Get Full Text in PDF Abstract War and peace perpetually alternate. Peace is always seen as an endless project, even a dream, to be realised in brotherhood by everyone all over the earth. During the last centuries, outstanding endeavours have been undertaken by the international community to create an international order free from wars through the strengthening of mechanisms aimed at promoting peaceful settlement of disputes. The UN Charter is the most solemn pact of peace in history,...