Samuel Rudolph "Rudy" Insanally (born 23 January 1936)
, Office of the President of Guyana, 9 September 2006. is a Guyanese diplomat. He has been Guyana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 1987Permanent Representatives of the Republic of Guyana to the United Nations
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Guyana to the United Nations. and was Minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana from 2001 to 2008."Insanally to retire as Minister of Foreign Affairs"
GINA, 28 March 2008.

Early life

Insanally was born in

Georgetown, Guyana Georgetown is the capital (political), capital and largest city of Guyana. It is situated in Demerara-Mahaica, region 4, on the Atlantic Ocean coast, at the mouth of the Demerara River. It is nicknamed the "Garden City of the Caribbean." It is t ...

. Before his career as a diplomat began, he taught French and Spanish in Jamaica at Kingston College and

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, as well as in Guyana at Queen's College and the

University of Guyana The University of Guyana, in Georgetown, Guyana, is Guyana's national higher education institution. It was established in April 1963 with the following Mission: "To discover, generate, disseminate, and apply knowledge of the highest standard fo ...

Diplomatic career

In his first diplomatic posting, he was Counsellor to Guyana's Embassy to the United States from 1966 to 1969, and he subsequently became Guyana's ''

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'' in

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in 1970. He was briefly his country's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 1972, then served as Ambassador to Venezuela (with additional accreditation for Colombia,

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechuan languages, Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar language, Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechuan ...

, and

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) from 1972 to 1978. After this posting, he was Permanent Representative to the European Economic Community and Ambassador to

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; although living in

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, he was also Ambassador to

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, and Sweden at this time. Subsequently, having returned to Guyana, Insanally was Head of the Political Division covering the Western Hemisphere, also serving as Ambassador to Colombia and as High Commissioner to a number of Caribbean nations. He became the Permanent Representative (ambassador) of Guyana to the United Nations on 18 February 1987. At the UN, he was vice-president of the

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prior to Namibian independence in 1990, and in April 1990 he was Vice-president/Rapporteur of the Special Session of the

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on International Economic Cooperation. He was the President of the Forty-Eighth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which was held from 1993 to 1994. He is the longest serving current delegate to the United Nations. In the course of Insanally's duties at the Permanent Mission to the UN, he concurrently served as Ambassador to Japan from 1992. During his presidency, he convened a World Hearing on Development attended by a large number of eminent persons, including experts, academics and practitioners of development in June 1994. He also served as Chairman of the Open Ended Working Group on the question of Equitable Representation on and increase of the Membership of the Security Council. Insanally was Chancellor of the

from 1994 to 2001. He became

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in May 2001. After seven years in that post, the government announced on 28 March 2008 that Insanally had decided to resign as Foreign Minister for "health and other personal reasons", although he would "continue to discharge certain other responsibilities in his engagement with Government". His replacement,

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, was sworn in on 10 April. He is married to Bonita Insanally with one daughter, Dr. Amanda Insanally-Nunez.

Publications

* Rudy Insanally, ''Multilateral Diplomacy for Small States: "The art of letting others have your way"'' (2012) * Rudy Insanally, ''Dancing Between the Raindrops: A Dispatch From A Small State Diplomat'' (2015) * Rudy Insanally, ''The Guyanese Culture: Fusion or Diffusion.'' (2018) * S.R Insanally, ''The Mystery of God: The Principles of God Diplomacy''. (2020)

Honors

* Order of Roraima (O.R). 1995. (Guyana ). * Order of the Liberator. Grand Cordon. 1978 (Venezuela). * Order of the Southern Cross, Grand Cordon. 2003. (Brazil). * Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, 2009 (Japan).

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"2009 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals," p. 1.
/ref> * Doctor of Laws (Hon). Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. (USA).

Yearly Achievements

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