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{{Short description|Mexican diplomat and politician}}{{More citations needed|date=August 2022}}{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Alfonso García Robles
|image=Alfonso Garcia Robles 1981.jpg
|caption=García Robles in 1981
| birth_date = {{birth date|1911|3|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Zamora, Michoacán|Zamora]], [[Michoacán]], [[Mexico]]
| death_date = {{death date|1991|9|2|df=yes}} (aged 80)
| death_place = [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]]
|office = [[Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)|Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico]]
|term_start = 29 December 1975
|term_end = 30 November 1976
|president = [[Luis Echeverría]]
|predecessor = [[Emilio Oscar Rabasa]]
|successor = {{ill|Santiago Roel García|es}}
| office1 = [[Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations|Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations]]
| term_start1 = 14 December 1970
| term_end1 = 1 January 1976
| president1 = [[Luis Echeverría]]
| predecessor1 = {{ill|Francisco Cuevas Cancino|es}}
| successor1 = {{ill|Roberto de Rosenzweig-Díaz Azmitia|es}}
| alma_mater = [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])
|signature = Alfonso García Robles (Firma).jpg
|awards= [[File:PER_Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png|x12px]] <br> [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (1982)}}
'''Alfonso García Robles''' (20 March 1911 – 2 September 1991) was a Mexican [[diplomat]] and [[politician]] who, in conjunction with [[Sweden]]'s [[Alva Myrdal]], received the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1982.<ref>{{Nobelprize}}</ref>

García Robles was born in [[Zamora, Michoacán|Zamora]], [[Michoacán]], and trained in law at the [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]] (UNAM), the [[Institute of Higher International Studies]] (IHEI) in Paris, France (1936), and [[The Hague Academy of International Law]] in the Netherlands (1938) before joining his country's foreign service in 1939.
  
He served as a delegate to the 1945 [[United Nations Conference on International Organization|San Francisco Conference]] that established the [[United Nations]]. 
He was ambassador to [[Brazil]] from 1962 to 1964, and was state secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs from 1964 to 1970.  In 1971–1975 he served as his country's representative to the United Nations before an appointment as [[Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)|foreign minister]] in 1975–76.  He was then appointed  Mexico's permanent representative to the UN's [[Committee on Disarmament]].

García Robles received the Nobel Peace Prize as the driving force behind the [[Treaty of Tlatelolco]], which set up a nuclear-free zone in [[Latin America]] and the [[Caribbean]].  The agreement was signed in 1967 by most states in the region, though some states took some time to ratify the agreement.

He was admitted to the [[Colegio Nacional (Mexico)|Colegio Nacional]] of Mexico in 1972. His name was inscribed on the Wall of Honor of the [[Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro]], the seat of the [[Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)|Chamber of Deputies]], in 2003. His widow died in 2005 aged 83.

==Honours==
* Commander of the [[Order of the Southern Cross]] (Brazil)
* Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Aztec Eagle]] (Mexico)
* Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Sun of Peru]] (Peru)
==See also==
* [[List of peace activists]]

==References==
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== Further reading ==

* {{Britannica|id=225678}}
{{Nobel Peace Prize Laureates 1976-2000}}
{{1982 Nobel Prize winners}}

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