GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ Y SANCHEZ: GG Chairman U.N. Economic Committee 1950

Jurist Politician Diplomat Economist

Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of Havana-1919-1934.

Secretary/treasurer-Cuban Society of International Law, 1920.

Legal Counsel to Secretary of State-1925-29

Delegate- VI American International Conference, 1928

Delegate/Technical Counsel-Conference on Conciliation and Arbitrage, Washington-1928

Secretary General-First Pan-American Conference of Municipalities, 1928

Delegate Plenapotentiary-Conference on Trademarks, Washington, 1929

Director of the International American Office for the Protection of Trademarks and Commerce, 1930.

Liberal Party - President-Havana province, 1930

Delegate-IV Pan-American Commercial Conference, Washington, 1931

Secretary of Justice, 1933

Member-House of Representatives, 1938-1942

Technical Advisor-Commission on Foreign Relations for the Senate, 1937

Technical Advisor-Commission for the Study of the New Constitution, 193?

President of the Foreign Relations Commission for the House of Representatives, 1939

Technical Director -Pan-American Commission for Intermuncipalities Cooperation, Chicago-1939

Delegate- VIII American Scientific Congress, Washington-1940

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1940-1941

Cuban delegation head and Sub-Committee President, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Atlantic City, 1943, 1944 and 1945.

G.A.T.T. Chairman Legal Drafting Committee and Tech. Dir., Cuban Delegation) Geneva-1947; (Head of Cuban Delegation) Geneva, Petropolis-1950, 1954.

Head of Cuban delegation, (GATT) Havana Charter, 1948.

President-Junta de Economia de Guerra, 1942.

President-Cuban Maritime Commission, 1942-43.

Ambassador to the United Nations (Security Council)1948.

President-Cuban Delegation, General Assembly, 1949

Technical Director/Secretary/President-National Junta of Economy (Junta Nacional de Economia) 1948-1953.

President-United Nations Economic Committee, 1951.

Minister of Finance (Ministro de Hacienda) 1953-1955.

Special Envoy-O.A.S. Conference of the Presidents, Panama, 1956.

President-Cuban Nuclear Energy Commission, 1956.

President-Ministerial Commission for Tariff Reform, 1958.

Minister of Economy (a.k.a. Ministro Presidente-Consejo Nacional de Economia/National Board of Economy, 1955-1959.

March 9, 2010

GG Chairman U.N. Economic Committee 1950

Dr. Gustavo Gutiérrez was unanimously appointed chairman of the Economic Committee of the United Nations for the 5th Session of the General Assembly in Flushing Meadows, New York in January, 1951. Dean Acheson was Secretary of State of the United States at the time. Dr. Gutérrez can be seen in the series of portraits in the bottom left hand corner of the photograph above. He's the only delegate wearing glasses.

The second document, "Personalidades de la Asamblea, Los Presidentes de las Comisiones" is a publication (October 15, 1950) introducing the new elected United Nations chairmen (presidentes) of various committees (comiciones). We see Dr. Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez (Primera Comisión) of Colombia, Dr. Victor Andres Belaunde (Comisión Ad Hoc) of Peru and Dr. Gustavo Gutiérrez (Segunda Comisión) of Cuba.

One month earlier in December of 1950 Dr. Gutiérrez attacked the Soviet Ambassador for his country's support of the Chinese invasion of Korea and for attempting to justify China's actions by misquoting the 1907 Convention of the Hague. Please see January 2009 blog entry "GG Attacks Soviet Vyshinski at the U.N. 1950" to read the article in the original Spanish and for a "remedial" English translation please see blog entry from March 2010, "GG Accuses Soviet Vyshinsky at the UN 1950."