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His Excellency
Luis Padilla Nervo
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
In office
1 December 1952 – 30 November 1958
PresidentAdolfo Ruiz Cortines
Preceded byManuel Tello Baurraud
Succeeded byManuel Tello Baurraud
Personal details
Born19 August 1894
Zamora, Michoacán
Died9 September 1985(1985-09-09) (aged 91)
Mexico City
Political partyPRI
Alma materUNAM
ProfessionLawyer, Diplomat

Luis Padilla Nervo (19 August 1894 – 9 September 1985) was a Mexican politician and diplomat. He was the first Mexican Ambassador at the United Nations,[1] Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Sixth Session of United Nations General Assembly.

Career

He studied law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He also did postgraduate work at American, French, and British universities. Luis Padilla Nervo represented Mexico during the San Francisco Conference in 1945 and signed the United Nations Charter. In addition, he was the first Mexican Ambassador at the United Nations;[1][2] in that position, he was a member of the United Nations Security Council.[3] During the sixth session, he was president of the United Nations General Assembly.

Padilla Nervo was also ambassador to El Salvador, Paraguay, UNESCO, Costa Rica, and Denmark. In the Mexican public administration, he served in the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labor. At the finish of his commission in the Permanent Mission of Mexico in United Nations, he was elected as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the period 1964 to 1973. He became the second Mexican to serve at the ICJ, after Isidro Fabela.

In 1980, he was awarded the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor for his contributions "toward the welfare of the Nation and mankind".

Nervo authored one book published in 1985 titled Testimonios de 40 años de presencia de México en las Naciones Unidas.[4]

Books

Testimonios de 40 años de presencia de México en las Naciones Unidas, ISBN 9789688101001, 9688101001

References

  1. ^ a b "Juan Ramón de la Fuente y el reto de México para ser protagonista de la política internacional". EL CEO (in Mexican Spanish). 2020-06-18. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  2. ^ "75 años de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas". El Universal (in Spanish). 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  3. ^ "ONU. Intervenciones de México en las Naciones Unidas". www.milenio.com (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  4. ^ Nervo, Luis Padilla (1985). Testimonios de 40 años de presencia de México en las Naciones Unidas (in Spanish). Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. ISBN 978-968-810-100-1.
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Foreign Affairs
1952–1958 		Succeeded by
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
First in charge
 Ambassador of Mexico at United Nations
1945–1952 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Ambassador of Mexico at United Nations
1959–1963 		Succeeded by


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