Inocencio arias biography of william

Spanish diplomat

Inocencio F. Arias, also known as Chencho (born April 20, in Albox, Almería province), is a multifarious Spanishdiplomat, who served as consul general in Los Angeles, California, United States. He retired in

Career

His previous assignment was as Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations in New York City.

In the Security Council he presided the Antiterrorism Committee of the United Nations. Previously, he served as State Secretary for International cooperation and for Ibero-American Affairs (–93) and as Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (–91).^[1]

In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arias was Director of the Diplomatic Information Office and spokesman of the Department with quite different democratic administrations: center, –82; socialist, –88; and center-right, During his diplomatic career, he served in Bolivia, Algeria and Portugal.

He participated in several international conferences: the Earth Summit (Rio de Janeiro ); European Councils (, 87, 88, 96); NATO summit (Madrid, ); Middle East Summit (Madrid ) and Non-Aligned Movement Summit (Jakarta ); Iberoamerican Summits (Mexico City , Madrid , Bahia , Santiago, Chile ).

He has been a member of the Spanish Delegation to the 36th, 37th, 40thrd, and 51stth sessions of the United Nations General Assembly.

Biography of william shakespeare Inocencio F. Arias, the new Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Arias served three stints at Spain's Foreign Ministry as Director of the Diplomatic Information Office and as a spokesman (, , ).

Non-diplomatic experience

Arias, who holds a degree in Law and joined the diplomatic service in , also has a considerable experience outside the diplomatic world. He was General Director of the football Club Real Madrid (–95). He also has experienced the academic field, having been professor of International Relations at the Complutense University and at the University Carlos III, both in Madrid.

Mr. Arias is the author of several books, papers and contributions, among others, on political issues and international relations.

Inocencio F. Arias, also known as Chencho (born April 20, in Albox, Almería province), is a multifarious Spanish diplomat, who served as consul general in Los Angeles, California, United States. He retired in

His latest title, "Confesiones de un diplomatico" (Publisher: Planeta), is about the events leading up to the Iraq invasion inside the U.N. Security Council, interspersed with U.S. famous historic events as well as the entertainment industry and U.S. pastimes viewed from a Spanish/European perspective. Martin Prieto in "El Mundo" writes that Arias, after examining the origins and development of the Iraq war, states that without the terrorist attack of March in Madrid the center-right Popular Party would have won the elections of that year and examines the European antiamericanism plus the American ignorance of Europe.

M. Prieto concludes that the book is balanced and informative and with a lot of the sense of humour that Mr. Arias distillers. Perez Maura in "ABC" said that Arias "has written an enjoyable and illuminating book with some truly hilarious pages". In addition, Mr. Arias authored a book about three famous football stars ("Los Tres Mitos del Real Madrid"): Di Stéfano, Butragueño and Raúl; and edited a multilingual international soccer dictionary during the Football World Cup hosted by Spain in In February Arias published "La Trastienda de la Diplomacia" (Ed.

Plaza Janés)(The backroom of diplomacy) that describes with humor and insight some 25 international encounters.

Inocencio Arias [4] Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo Juan Pablo de Laiglesia: Fernando Arias González [5] Román Oyarzun Marchesi Jorge Moragas Sánchez [6] Agustín Santos Maraver

The book had a fast second printing because the first one was sold out in three weeks.

Controversy about the Invasion of Iraq in

Arias made the headlines in August , when he was recalled from New York with immediate effect, despite the fact that he was officially on holiday. The mainstream media seemed to agree ^[2] stating "it's no secret that the Spanish government is unhappy with comments made by Arias" who said that "if weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq, the justification of the decision to go to war would be undermined".

The government said, however, that the ambassador returned for 'professional reasons'.^[3]

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