García Robles

American  

[gahr-see-uh roh-bleys, -bluhs, gahr-see-ah raw-bles] / gɑrˈsi ə ˈroʊ bleɪs, -bləs, gɑrˈsi ɑ ˈrɔ βlɛs /

noun

1. Alfonso 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: shared Nobel Peace Prize 1982 with Alva Myrdal.

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Example Sentences

The author of more than 20 books and some 300 articles on foreign affairs, Garcia Robles is said by acquaintances to be "obsessed" with the disarmament issue.

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Co-Laureate Garcia Robles, on the other hand, has pursued a low-profile path to the same ends.

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The winners were Swedish Sociologist Alva Myrdal, 80, and Alfonso Garcia Robles, 71, a Mexican career diplomat who energetically sponsored the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco, which is intended to make Latin America the world's largest nuclear-free inhabited zone.

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In 1968 Garcia Robles co-authored the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that has now been signed by 115 nations.

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Mexico's Alfonso Garcia Robles averred that the right of any one of the Big Five to veto Security Council action created "a system of order in the forest which will keep the mice in order, but not the lions."

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