- Emilio Óscar Rabasa
Emilio Óscar Rabasa Mishkin [ [http://www.exonline.com.mx/diario/noticia/primera/politicanacional/murio_el_ex_canciller_emilio_oscar_rabasa/253839 Murió el ex canciller Emilio Óscar Rabasa] "
El Excélsior ",15 June 2008 .] (23 January 1925 –14 June 2008 ) [ [http://www.sre.gob.mx/acerca/secretarios/xx.htm Emilio O. Rabasa] , SRE biography.] was a Mexican politician, diplomat and academic.Rabasa Mishkin was born in
Mexico City , the son of constitutional lawyer, poet, and one-timeGovernor of Chiapas Emilio Rabasa Estebanell (1856–1930). He studied law at theNational Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he also earned his J.D. and later founded the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences.Rabasa served as Ambassador to the United States in 1970–71, during the government of
U.S. President Richard Nixon . On1 December 1970 , PresidentLuis Echeverría appointed him Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He oversaw a period of intense diplomatic activity, during which Mexico doubled (from 67 to 129) the number of countries with which it maintained diplomatic relations, particularly among the nations of theThird World and theNon-Aligned Movement . During Rabasa's time at the foreign ministry, Mexico refused to impose OAS-led sanctions on Castro'sCuba and admitted a flood of political refugees fromPinochet 'sChile . Rabasa was also instrumental in the country's adoption of a 200-nautical-mileEconomic Exclusion Zone and the creation of theMatías Romero Diplomatic Studies Institute . He also signed Mexico's first cooperation agreement with theEuropean Economic Community . [ [http://www.sre.gob.mx/acerca/secretarios/xx.htm Emilio O. Rabasa] , SRE biography.]Rabasa resigned from the cabinet on
28 December 1975 , due to differences of opinion with President Echeverría arising from heightened international tensions following Mexico's vote in favour ofUnited Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 , equatingZionism withracism . He was replaced byAlfonso García Robles .After he stepped down he wrote several books including "History of the Mexican Constitution", "The Political Thought of the Constituent" and "Environmental Law". He later served at the
Permanent Court of Arbitration inThe Hague and on the OAS'sInter-American Juridical Committee inRio de Janeiro .Rabasa died on
14 June 2008 ofheart failure . [ [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/514984.html Muere ex canciller Emilio Óscar Rabasa] "El Universal",14 June 2008 ; [http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/514984.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DMuere%2Bex%2Bcanciller%2BEmilio%2B%25C3%2593scar%2BRabasa%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3DB6t%26sa%3DG Former chancellor Emilio Oscar Rabasa dies] (machine translation from Google)]References
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* [http://www.juridicas.unam.mx/invest/directorio/investigador.htm?p=rabasa Dr. Emilio O. Rabasa Mishkin] (IIJ/UNAM)
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