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Diplomat lawyer

José Antonio MORA OTERO, Uruguayan lawyer, diplomat;. Decorations: Sol del Perú, Cóndor de los Andes (Bolivia), Del Mérito (Chile), Légion d'Honneur (France). Member: Institute de Derecho Internacional Argentino (correspondent), Club de Golf, Young Men's Christian Association.

Background

MORA OTERO, José Antonio was born on November 22, 1897 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Career

Secretary, Uruguayan legation in Spain, 1926-1927, Brazil, 1928, United States, 1929-1930. Resident minister, 1933. Director, internat, institutes, ministry of foreign affairs, 1933-1942.

Secretary general, Uruguayan delegation, Pan American Commercial Conference, Buenos Aires, 1935. Counsellor, Uruguayan delegations to conferences of Panama, 1939, Havana, 1940, Rio de Janeiro, 1942, Mexico, 1945, San Francisco (United Nations), 1945, minister to Bolivia, 1942-1944, United States, 1946. President, Uruguayan delegation, International Sanitary Conference of United Nations, New York, 1946.

Delegate, General Assembly of United Nations, New York, 1946, Conference for Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security, Rio de Janeiro, 1947. Ambassador to Pan American Union, since 1946, vice-president, 1948. Bachelor of Laws, University de Montevideo, 1923.

1 daughter, Emma G.

Membership

Member: Institute de Derecho Internacional Argentino (correspondent), Club de Golf, Young Men's Christian Association.

Connections

Father:
José Antonio Mora

Mother:
Emma Otero

Spouse:
Susana Nery

child:
Emma G. Career: Sec MORA OTERO

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Awards

  • Decorations: Sol del Perú, Cóndor de los Andes (Bolivia), Del Mérito (Chile), Légion d'Honneur (France).