The Diplomat
The diplomat José Luis Pardos Pérez, who was Spain’s ambassador to Australia, Canada and Denmark, died last Thursday, in Madrid, at the age of 89.
Born in Murcia, he had a doctorate in International Law from the University of Bologna, where he was a member of the Royal College of Spain, between 1956 and 1958.
Throughout his Diplomatic Career, which began in 1959, he held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.
Thus, he was assigned to the Permanent Representation to the UN, in New York; at the Embassy to the Holy See and at the Embassy in Lima. From 1988 to 1992 he was our country’s ambassador to Australia, New Zealand and Melanesia; and from 1992 to 1996, in Canada. Between 1996 and 2001 he was ambassador to Denmark and Lithuania.
José Luis Pardos was also general director of International Technical Cooperation, from 1982 to 1985, and in 2001 he was named ambassador-at-large for New Technologies, a field in which he became a great expert.
