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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)

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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar was a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991, making him one of the organization's top leaders during a critical period of the Cold War's end. His tenure mattered because he helped navigate international diplomacy during major global transitions and conflicts, including wars and humanitarian crises that required the UN's attention and intervention.

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“It is ironic that the accumulation of arms is one of the few expanding industries in a period of economic depression and gloom.”
“Some 500,000 scientists all over the world are devoting their knowledge to the search for weaponry more sophisticated and more deadly.”

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Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar Guerra (/ˈpɛrɛs də ˈkweɪjɑːr/, Spanish: [xaˈβjeɾ ˈpeɾes ðe ˈkweʝaɾ]; 19 January 1920 – 4 March 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth secretary-general of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991. He later served as prime minister of Peru from 2000 to 2001.

His two terms as secretary-general coincided with the final decade of the Cold War, and he engaged in efforts to address the Iran–Iraq War, the Western Sahara conflict, the Cyprus problem, Namibian independence under the Tripartite Accord, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Gulf War, and the opening of the Croatian War of Independence.