Diego García Sayán

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Diego García Sayán (born in New York City, 2-August- 1950), is a Peruvian judge on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.[1] He will remain on the bench until 2009 and, in 2007, was elected to serve as the Court's vice president for the 2008–09 period.[2]. He is the son of Enrique García-Sayán, a former Foreign Minister of Perú who, in 1946, was the person most associated, along with President José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, with launching the so called "200 nautical miles (370.4 km) Territorial Doctrine", currently being adhered to, and claimed by Benin, Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Liberia, Perú and Somalia

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[edit] Professional Activities

García Sayán co-founded the Peruvian Center for International Studies (CEPEI) in 1980. He is also the Chairperson of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.[3] In the Peruvian government he has served as a member of Congress (2000) and has held the portfolios of Minister of Justice (2000-2001) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2001-2002).[4]

[edit] Education

García Sayán attended the "Santa Maria" School, graduating from high-school in 1967. He then attended the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in 1969. He continued his studies at the University of Texas, at Austin in 1970, and returned to the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru for his law degree in 1975, where he has, since then, also taught law.

On his spare time, Mr. García Sayán is a percussionist and motorcycle enthusiast, the former from his times as a teenager, when he and several of his school friends formed the rock group "Los Hang Ten's".

[edit] References

  1. ^ 3D homepage, Bio
  2. ^ Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Spanish language
  3. ^ U.N. Press Release
  4. ^ Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Spanish language

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