Julio Londoño Paredes (Born 10 July 1938) is a retired Colombian Army Lieutenant Colonel

Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...

 and diplomat. He has served as Colombia's Minister or Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Colombia)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also known as the Chancellery, is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for the foreign relations of Colombia through its diplomatic missions abroad by formulating foreign policy relevant to the matters of the State, it is...

, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations

Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations

The Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations is the Chief of Mission of the delegation of Colombia, and highest permanent representative of the Government of Colombia to the United Nations...

, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the Organization of American States, and Ambassador of Colombia to Panama

Panama

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, and Cuba

Cuba

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. During his Ambassadorship in Cuba he was commissioned to represent Colombia at the International Court of Justice

International Court of Justice

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 to protect sovereign claims on the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina by Nicaragua

Nicaragua

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Personal life

Born on 10 July 1938 in Bogotá, Colombia to Julio Londoño Londoño and Isabel Paredes Manrique. He married Constanza Fajardo Solano with whom he had three children: Andrés, Isabel Cristina and Daniel Eduardo.