Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann
Ali Abdussalam Treki | |
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Ambassador of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the United Nations | |
In office 29 March 2011 – 20 October 2011 | |
Preceded by | Abdel Rahman Shalgham |
Succeeded by | Post Abolished |
Foreign Minister of Nicaragua | |
In office 19 July 1979 – 25 April 1990 | |
Preceded by | Harry Bodán Shields |
Succeeded by | Enrique Dreyfus |
Personal details | |
Born | Los Angeles, California, United States | February 5, 1933
Died | June 8, 2017 Managua, Nicaragua | (aged 84)
Nationality | Nicaragua |
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann
Early life
D'Escoto was born in Los Angeles, California.[7] on February 5, 1933. His father was Miguel Escoto Muñoz, a Nicaraguan diplomat.[8] His mother was Margarita Brockmann Meléndez. Through his father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann was descended from Nazario Escoto, acting president of Nicaragua in 1855. He was then raised in Nicaragua but was sent back to the United States to begin his high school studies in 1947.[9]
Priesthood
D'Escoto felt called to serve as priest and entered the seminary of the
On August 5, 2014, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had reinstated D'Escoto as a priest after he had been suspended for thirty years for taking up office in Nicaragua's left-wing Sandinista government. D'Escoto had been banned from celebrating Mass by Pope John Paul II for defying a church ban on priests holding political office. D'Escoto served as Nicaragua's foreign minister from 1979 to 1990. He welcomed the news and said his punishment had been unfair. D'Escoto, 81, had written to Pope Francis asking to be allowed to celebrate Mass before he died.[14]
Nicaraguan Revolution
D'Escoto first publicly expressed support for the FSLN as one of
In 1985, the pope denounced him and two other priests, the brothers
Early in the war, the
Political activity
On March 3, 1986, D'Escoto gave a speech on Nicaraguan television publicly insulting and condemning Cardinal Obando for not siding with the Sandinista regime against the Contras: "There is no word uttered by human mouth, no adjective that we could use to truly describe the horror produced by this brother of ours."[citation needed]
After the Sandinistas lost the 1990 Nicaraguan general election, D'Escoto led the Communal Movement but resigned that post in December 1991 after his support within the organization waned.[19] He supported Daniel Ortega against the Sandinista Renovation Movement dissidents.[20]
United Nations
President of the General Assembly
The Latin American and Caribbean Group selected him as their candidate to become the president of the UN General Assembly. On June 4, 2008, he was elected by acclamation to preside over 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2008 to September 2009.[21]
Shortly after his election, D'Escoto stated during a press conference:
They elected a priest. And I hope no one is offended if I say that love is what is most needed in this world. And that selfishness is what has gotten us into the terrible quagmire in which the world is sinking, almost irreversibly, unless something big happens. This may sound like a sermon. Well, OK.[22]
D'Escoto stated that addressing rising energy and food prices around the world would be priorities.]
In June 2010, D'Escoto was elected by acclamation to the Council Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council.[25]
Reform of the United Nations
D'Escoto criticised the veto power wielded by the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Therein he said "I hope my presidency will address what has become a universal clamour all over the world for the democratisation of the United Nations. I promise to give full support to the working group on the revitalisation of the General Assembly."[21]
Relations with the United States
Described by Reuters as "a fierce critic of the foreign relations of the United States (he referred to Ronald Reagan in 2004 as "the butcher of my people"[7]): "Because of Reagan and his spiritual heir George W. Bush, the world today is far less safe and secure than it has ever been."[4]
Following his election to the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly, he offered a statement interpreted[
Relations with Israel and Iran
On September 17, 2008, Israel's Ambassador to the U.N
Libyan ambassador
On March 29, 2011, during the
Death
On June 8, 2017, Brockmann died at the age of 84 after suffering a stroke several months earlier.[33] He was buried in the Cementerio General in Managua.[34][35]
References
- ^ "General Assembly Elects, by Acclamation, President for Sixty-Third Session", United Nations General Assembly official website
- ^ "Nicaraguan elected to head next session of General Assembly", United Nations General Assembly official website
- ^ Bilefsky, Dan (March 30, 2011). "Ex-Nicaraguan Official to Represent Libya at United Nations". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c d e f "Nicaraguan U.S. critic made U.N. assembly president", Reuters, June 4, 2008.
- ^ "Nicaragua: ex-diplomat Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann dies at 84". ABC News. June 8, 2017.
- ^ "Muere el excanciller y sacerdote Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann" (in Spanish). La Prensa. June 8, 2017.
- ^ a b "FACTBOX-Facts on new UN assembly head D'Escoto", Reuters, June 4, 2008
- ^ ":::Bolsa de Noticias::: ***Managua, Nicaragua***". www.bolsadenoticias.com.ni.
- ^ "Father Miguel F. d'Escoto, MM". Maryknoll Mission Archives. Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers, Maryknoll Sisters, and Maryknoll Lay Missioners. Archived from the original (Remembrance) on October 24, 2020.
- OCLC 22113060.
- ^ "Laguna de Apoyo, Nicaragua: FUNDECI: Nicaraguan Foundation for Integral Community Development".
- ^ "Excmo. Sr. Padre Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, M.M. Presidente del sexagésimo tercer período de sesiones de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas" Archived 2013-09-14 at the Wayback Machine, cinu.org.mx; accessed August 11, 2018.(in Spanish)
- ^ Gaia. "Gaia". www.gaianicaragua.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
- ^ "Pope reinstates Nicaraguan priest". BBC News. 5 August 2014.
- ^ Pope John Paul II criticizes clerical political activity, catholicnewsagency.com; accessed August 11, 2018.
- ^ Pope lifts suspension of Father D'Escoto, former Sandinista official; accessed 11 August 2018.
- ^ "The Thomas Merton Award 2006 will honor Angela Y. Davis!" Archived 2006-12-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Suspended Nicaraguan priest elected president of U.N. General Assembly". Archived from the original on 2008-12-01.
- ^ "The Popular Organizations in Nicaragua Yesterday and Today".
- ^ Revista Envío - "We’re Independent Leftists", envio.org.ni; accessed August 11, 2018.(in Spanish)
- ^ a b c "UN Elects Ex-Sandinista as Assembly President" Archived 2008-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b ""Priest elected UN General Assembly president"". Archived from the original on June 11, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
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- ^ "D'Escoto designates senior advisers" (PDF).
- ^ The U.N.'s war on Israel continues and the U.S. is silent, nydailynews.com, June 18, 2010.
- ^ "Former Nicaraguan Official Wins U.N. Assembly Presidency", New York Times, June 5, 2008
- ^ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509596,00.html U.N. Official Accuses U.S. of Demonizing Ahmadinejad
- ^ Israel ambassador to UN: General Assembly chief is an Israel hater. Archived 2009-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d "'Why did he embrace Ahmadinejad?'. Israel's UN envoy upset at General Assembly president's speech, Ahmadinejad hug". Archived from the original on 2009-07-15.
- ^ Bill Varner and Blake Schmidt (March 29, 2011). "Former Nicaragua Sandinista Leader Named Libya's UN Envoy". Reuters. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
- ^ AP (March 30, 2011). "Nicaraguan Asked to Represent Libya at UN". Associated Press. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
- ^ "Fallece Miguel D'Escoto, Canciller de la Dignidad Nacional". June 9, 2017.
- Associated Press News. 9 June 2017.
- ^ "Daniel Ortega recuerda a Miguel D'Escoto como el canciller de la dignidad". El Nuevo Diario (in Spanish). Managua, Nicaragua. 9 June 2017. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Photos of Rev Felix Miguel d'Escoto - Find A". Find a Grave.
External links
- Official Website as president of the UNGA
- Address to the General Assembly of the United Nations opening the General Debate of the 63rd Session, September 23, 2008
- Address to the General Assembly of the United Nations closing the General Debate of the 63rd Session, September 29, 2008
- D'Escoto: "The UN has failed" on The Real News. Published October 11, 2009.
- Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann discussing the need to reinvent the United Nations interview aired on Democracy Now!, April 26, 2010
- Fmr. UN President d’Escoto: "The U.N. Is Beyond Reform, It Has to Be Reinvented" - video by Democracy Now!