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Ambassador Julio Cesar Carasales (1928-2000) Julio Cesar Carasales, a retired Argentine ambassador and former member of the Pugwash Council, passed away on 2 November 2000 in Buenos Aires, the city where he was born in 1928. Carasales graduated in law from the University of Buenos Aires in 1950 and entered into the Argentine Foreign Service, attaining the category of ambassador in 1973. Among his government positions, Carasales was a subsecretary of the Foreign Affairs ministry, ambassador to Denmark and to the Organization of American States (OAS), and Director of the Department of International Organizations and of the Institute of the National Foreign Service. He was also a permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and adjunto representative to the United Nations (UN) and the UN Security Council. He was head of the Argentine delegation to the UN Disarmament Conference in Geneva for four years, from 1981-85.
During his tenure with the OAS, Ambassador Carasales was chairman of the General Assembly, of the Meeting of Chancellors, of the Permanent Council, and of the Interamerican Economic and Social Council. At the United Nations, he was vice-president of the First Commission (Disarmament and Security) of the General Assembly and of the Disarmament Committee. With a special interest in issues relating to nuclear weapons proliferation, Amb. Carasales attended more than 10 Pugwash workshops and annual conferences beginning in the late 1980s, and he served as a member of the Pugwash Council from 1997 to 1999. Amb. Carasales was professor at the Universities of Salvador and Belgrano, and the author of numerous articles and several books. Among the latter are The Disarmament of the Disarmed, in which he analyzed in great detail the merits and defects of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and From Rivals to Partners, in which he described the process which led to nuclear cooperation between Argentina and Brazil. Luis Masperi |