Alvaro De Soto, MA Biography
- Title:
- United Nations (U.N.) Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) and U.N. Secretary-General Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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“The forthcoming Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the northern West Bank continues to overshadow all other issues. Disengagement is an important step forward: withdrawal from occupied territory, albeit partial and on terms largely set by the occupier, is a positive, precedent-setting step and one that the entire international community cannot but support. Moreover, as stated repeatedly by the Quartet, it offers an opportunity to re-energize the Road Map. It is a moment pregnant with hope but also fraught with peril.”
“Briefing for the Security Council 4207,” U.N. Security Council Briefings, July 21, 2005
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)
- U.N. Secretary-General Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority
- U.N. Under-Secretary-General, 1999
- U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus, 1999
- U.N. Special Envoy for Myanmar, 1997
- U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, 1995
- Senior Political Adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1992
- Honorary Doctorate of Law, St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, 1992
- Personal Representative for the Central American Peace Process for U.N. to Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 1982
- Peruvian Ambassador to the United Nations
- Education:
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- MA, Law and International Relations, Catholic University of Lima
- Attended the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
- Other:
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