He passed away at the age of 90. Mayor Zaragoza was Minister of Education and Science between 1981 and 1982 and Director General of UNESCO between 1987 and 1999. In 2019, they received the René Cassin Prize from the Lehendakari and publicly supported the rapprochement of prisoners of the now defunct ETA.
Mayor Federico Zaragoza has died at the age of 90. Mayor Zaragoza was Minister of Education and Science between 1981 and 1982, and Director General of UNESCO between 1987 and 1999.
This has been confirmed by the Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, in a message on his profile on the social network in our country.”
He was Undersecretary of Education and Science of the Spanish Government between 1974 and 1975, Executive Chairman Carlos Arias Navarro in the dictatorship by Francisco Franco.
In April 1976 he was appointed chairman of the Commission for the Study of the Special Administrative Regime of Catalonia, which was to study an autonomous regime for the four Catalan provinces.
He took part in the first general elections and was appointed deputy in the Parliament of Spain (1977–1978). by UCD. Already during the transition, advisor to the President of the Government (1977-1978), Minister of Education and Science (1981-1982) and deputy in the European Parliament for the Democratic and Social Center (1987).
In 1978 he was appointed deputy director general of the UNESCOa position he held until his return to Spain in 1981. In 1987 he was elected Director-General by the 24th General Conference of UNESCO, a position he continued to hold until 1999.
Likewise, in January 2013, he was one of the personalities who supported the demonstration in Bilbao tackling prisons in the Basque Country of the prisoners of the disappeared and disbanded ETA organization.
In 2019, Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu presented the René Cassin Prize of human rights to Federico Mayor Zaragoza “for his contribution to peace, education and human rights”, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day.
Source: EITB
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