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The Papers of Alfonso García Robles on the Committee of DisarmamentMSS.98.7

The Papers of Alfonso García Robles on the Committee of DisarmamentMSS.98.7


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Repository
Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections
Identification
MSS.98.7
Title
The Papers of Alfonso García Robles on the Committee of Disarmament 1978-1986
URL:
https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/107938
Quantity
3 Cubic Feet, 3 archival cartons. and some photographs
Language
Spanish; Castilian , English .
Abstract
Photocopies of documents (1978-1986) relating to the U.N. Committee on Disarmament.

Administrative Information

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Mrs. Juanita García Robles (wife) of Alfonso García Robles, in November of 1998.

Biographical / Historical

Alfonso García Robles was born in Zamora, Michoacán on March 20, 1911. He studied law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City and in 1936 he received a LLM degree from the University of Paris. Two years later he got an International Law Diploma from The Hague Academy of International Law. He wrote his first books in French: Le Panaméricanisme et la Politique de Bon Voisinage (1938) y La Question du Petróle au Mexique et Ie Droit International (1939). In 1939 he entered the Mexican Foreign Service and in 1945 he participated in the founding of the United Nations as Mexico's delegate to the San Francisco Conference. García Robles was the Director of the Division of Political Affairs at the United Nations Secretariat from 1948 to 1957 when he returned to the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores as Director of European, Asian, African Affairs and International Organizations. From 1961-1964 he was ambassador in Brazil and later that year he was named President of the Preparatory Commission for the Denuclearization of Latin America, whose work produced the Tratado de Tlatelolco that declared Latin America a nuclear weapon free zone in 1967 and was signed by twenty-two countries. In 1975 he was named Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores. In 1968, he co-wrote the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968 and was the Mexican representative to the United Nations Disarmament Committee in Geneva. In 1982, García Robles and the Swedish sociologist Alva Myrdal, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. García Robles died September 2, 1991 in Mexico City.

Scope and Contents

This small collection of documents (3 cartons, 2.5 linear ft.) relating to the Committee on Disarmament and a few photographs, were transferred to Special Collections in November of 1998. The documents were found in boxes, part of a gift of books given to the University of Virginia School of Law Library by Mrs. Juanita García Robles.

Container List

Mixed Materials [ 35007007675071] MSS 98-7, Box 1
Disarmament Commission. Report and UN Documents
1978-19791985
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675071] MSS 98-7, Box 1
Expertos Sísmicos. Conference of the Committee on Disarmament. Reports (almost all documents in Spanish)
1978-1979
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675071] MSS 98-7, Box 1
Grupo de Planeación
1984-1985
  • 1985; Grupo de Planeación. Parliamentarians for World Order
  • 1985; Grupo de Planeación. Atenas [Athens]. Five Continent Peace Project
  • 1984-1985; Grupo de Planeación. Roma
  • 1985; Grupo de Planeación. Mensaje. Documents related to the Limited Test Ban Amendment Proposal. Correspondence in Spanish and English between Mr. García Robles and Mexican officials; joint message to Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675071] MSS 98-7, Box 1
Grupo de Planeación II. Reunión de Paz de los Cinco Continentes. Grupo de Planeamiento. Buenos Aires, Ginebra, Estocolmo, Arusha
1986-02-1986-04
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675071] MSS 98-7, Box 1
Grupo de Planeación III
1984-1987
  • 1984-1986; Grupo de Planeación III. Ginebra, Rodas, Nueva York [Conference on Disarmament, Geneva. Correspondence, copies of official documents, UN documents, telegrams, etc., related to disarmament. (Many documents are in Spanish)
  • 1986; Grupo de Planeación III. Sismología. [Documents related to Seismology. "Five Continent Initiative Expert Group", Stockholm] (Documents in Spanish)
  • 1986-1987; Grupo de Planeación III. Información. [Planning Committee: The Group of Six. Official Mexican documents from the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores]
  • 1986-1987; Grupo de Planeación III. Buenos Aires. [Planning Committee Reunion. Correspondence related to disarmament between Mr. García Robles and Leonardo Sepúlveda, Mexican Minister for Foreign Affairs. Many documents in Spanish]
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675071] MSS 98-7, Box 1
Grupo de Planeación IV
1987-1988
  • 1987-1988; Grupo de Planeación IV. [The Six Nation Initiative for Peace and Disarmament]. New York
  • 1987-1988; Grupo de Planeación IV. [The Six Nation Initiative for Peace and Disarmament]. Athens
  • 1987-1988; Grupo de Planeación IV. [The Six Nation Initiative for Peace and Disarmament]. New York
  • 1987-1988; Grupo de Planeación IV. [The Six Nation Initiative for Peace and Disarmament]. Stockholm
  • 1987-1988; Grupo de Planeación IV. [The Six Nation Initiative for Peace and Disarmament]. Buenos Aires
  • 1987-1988; Grupo de Planeación IV. [The Six Nation Initiative for Peace and Disarmament]. Arusha
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675071] MSS 98-7, Box 1
Ixtapa. II Reunión Cumbre De Los Participantes En La Iniciativa de Paz y Desarme. [Conference on Disarmament: Declaration of Mexico and Document Issued at the Mexico Summit on Verification Measures]
1986-08
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675089] MSS 98-7, Box 2
Independent Commission VI [Independent Commission on Disarmament and Securities Issues]
1986
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675089] MSS 98-7, Box 2
Independent Commission VII. The Palme Commission on Disarmament and Securities Issues
1986-1987
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675089] MSS 98-7, Box 2
Independent Commission VIII [Independent Commission on Disarmament and Securities Issues]
1986
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675089] MSS 98-7, Box 2
32nd Pugwash IV Conference on Science and World Affairs. Varsovia
1982
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675089] MSS 98-7, Box 2
Pugwash V. Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1983
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675089] MSS 98-7, Box 2
Pugwash VI. Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1985-1987
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675089] MSS 98-7, Box 2
The Palme Commission on Disarmament and Securities Issues. Stockholm
1989
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675089] MSS 98-7, Box 2
UNIDIR – Espacio Ultraterrestre. [Disarmament: Problems Related to Outer Space]
1986-04
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675089] MSS 98-7, Box 2
Conferencia Armas Biológicas. [Second Review Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction
1986
Mixed Materials [ 35007007675089] MSS 98-7, Box 2
Corea – Campaña Mundial del Desarme. [Mr. García Robles' trip to Korea. Institute of International Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea]
1985
Mixed Materials [35007007675097] MSS 98-7, Box 3
Fundación del Tercer Mundo. Third World Foundation for Social and Economic Studies. [Documents re the nomination of Víctor L. Urquidi to receive the prize of the Third World Foundation; documents re Symposium on "Survival in the Nuclear Age"
1984-1985
Mixed Materials [35007007675097] MSS 98-7, Box 3
Conferencias y Ponencias. [Talks and Statements] (3 folders)
Mixed Materials [35007007675097] MSS 98-7, Box 3
Artículos [Articles] (3 folders)