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Dr. Guillermo Belt, born Havana, Cuba, 14 July 1905. University of Havana, Doctor in Law, 1925. Post-Graduate course on Corporations, Cornell University. Professor of International Law, University of Villanueva, Havana, 1956-1959. Minister of Public Instruction, 1933. Member of State Council, 1934-1938. Mayor, City of Havana and Minister without Portfolio, 1935. Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, 1944-1949. Head of Delegation to the Organization of American States, 1944-1949. Delegate to the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, Mexico City, 1945. Chairman, Cuban Delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945. Signer of the UN Charter and Permanent Delegate to the United Nations, 1945-1949. Rapporteur General of the U.N. Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945. President, Trusteeship Council, Preparatory Commission of the U.N., London, 1945. Chief Delegate, Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., Washington, D.C., 1946. Sponsor of U.N. General Assembly resolution affirming that genocide is a crime under international law (unanimously approved on 11 December 1946). Chairman, Cuban Delegation, Inter-American Conference on Reciprocal Assistance, Petropolis, Brazil, 1947, at which he proposed the inclusion of economic aggression in the Rio Treaty. Vice-President, General Assembly of the U.N., 1947. Governor, International Monetary Fund and World Bank, 1947 and 1948. Chairman, Cuban Delegation, IX Inter-American Conference, Bogota, Colombia, 1948. Chairman, Cuban Delegation, U.N. Conference, Paris, 1948. Unanimously elected Member of the U.N. Security Council, Paris, 1948. Decorations: Grand Cross, Order of St. Sylvester, Pope; Grand Cross, National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Cuba); Grand Cross, Cuban National Red Cross; Grand Cross, Order of Pétion (Haiti); Grand Cross, Order of Omayan (Syria); Commander, Order of the Cedars of Lebanon; Commander, Order of Nichan-Iftikhar (Tunisia); Officer, Legion of Honor (France). Honorary Life Member, Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País (Cuba). Honorary Member, New York Southern Society. Member, Havana Bar Association (Permanent Commission on International Law, 1949-1952). <ref -Hubbell Law Directory; Who's Who in America, 1946-1947. The American Journal of international Law, 1947, Vol. 41 (I):145-151. CRJ/58, SG/34, 19/8/47-M182, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C. p.4. The New York Times, 19 August 1947. UNGA 3, 1948, 149th, 08-10-48. The Washington Post, 4 July 1989. The Miami Herald, 4 July 1989.