US embassy cable - 05LIMA3914

UNCLAS LIMA 003914 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL, PINR, PGOV, PE, OAS 
SUBJECT: NEW PERM REP TO OAS 
 
 
1. A Supreme Resolution published on 9/7 in the GOP's "Legal 
Norms" named Fernando de la Flor Arbulu as Peru's Permanent 
Representative to the Organization for American States (OAS). 
 A subsequent Ministerial resolution will determine the date 
upon which De la Flor will assume responsibility. 
2. De la Flor is a partner at the private law firm La Hoz, De 
la Flor and Garcia Montufar, where he has worked since 1987. 
He also is on the Board of Directors of the parastatal 
Financial Corporation for Development (COFIDE).  From January 
2002 to July 2002 De la Flor was Secretary General to the 
Presidency of the Republic.  From August 2001 to December 
2001 he was a legal adviser to President Toledo.  In his 
public capacity, he represented Peru abroad and received 
decorations from Ecuador and Poland.  De la Flor has served 
as a member of the Freedom of Press Research Commission of 
the Legal College of Lima since 2001. He was a founding 
member in 1993 of the Democratic Forum, a pro-democracy 
organization that opposed the authoritarianism of the 
Fujimori regime. (Note: De la Flor's predecessor as Peru's 
OAS Permrep, Alberto Borea, headed-up the Democratic Forum. 
End Note.)  De la Flow was born on July 23, 1951.  He 
graduated with a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic 
University of Peru. 
STRUBLE