Santiago Oñate Laborde Explained

Santiago Oñate Laborde
Office:	Permanent Observer of Mexico to the Council of Europe
Term Start:	1 August 2013
Office2:	37th President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
Term Start2:	18 August 1995
Term End2:	13 December 1996
Successor2:	Humberto Roque Villanueva
Office3:	Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare of Mexico
Term Start3:	1 December 1994
Term End3:	18 August 1995
President3:	Ernesto Zedillo
Successor3:	Javier Bonilla
Office4:	President of the Chamber of Deputies
Term Start4:	1 October 1987
Term End4:	31 October 1987
Predecessor4:	Elba Esther Gordillo
Successor4:	César Augusto Santiago
Office5:	Member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Federal District's 25th district
Term Start5:	1 September 1985
Term End5:	31 August 1988
Predecessor5:	Jesús Salazar Toledano
Successor5:	Demetrio Sodi
Birth Date:	1949 5, df=yes
Birth Place:	Mexico City, Mexico
Party:	Partido Revolucionario Institucional
Alma Mater:	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Santiago Oñate Laborde (b. Mexico City, 1949) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).^[1]

Oñate Laborde graduated as lawyer from the law faculty in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 1972. He has gone on to serve in several positions inside the PRI and in the Mexican government. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1985 and to the Federal District Legislative Assembly upon expiration of his term as a federal legislator in 1998. In 1991 and 1992 he served as Ambassador to the Organization of American States and, in 1993, as the head of the Environmental Attorney's Office (Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Medio Ambiente or PROFEPA). In 1995 he was designated President of the PRI.^[2] He served for President Carlos Salinas as the head of the Presidency's Office (Oficina de la Presidencia). President Ernesto Zedillo appointed him as Secretary of Labor.

In 1997, Oñate Laborde became Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom, position he would hold until 2001, year when he became Ambassador of Mexico to the Netherlands. While serving as ambassador in the Netherlands, he also acted as the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. His term as ambassador ended in 2003, but he would continue his activities in the OPCW, serving as legal adviser and later on as special adviser to the Director General. In 2013 he became the Permanent Observer of Mexico to the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, France.

He pursued further studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the University of Wisconsin, the latter of which also saw him as professor, along with the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and Leiden University.

Publications

• • • "La Acción Procesal en la doctrina y en el derecho positivo mexicano", Mexico, 1972.
• "El Estado y el Derecho", S. Oñate and D. Pantoja, Anuies-Edicol, Mexico, 1977.
• "Evolución del Derecho Procesal Mexicano", in LXXV Años de Evolución Jurídica en el Mundo, UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Mexico, 1978.
• "Legal Aid in Mexico", in F. Zemans Legal Aid, Pinter Publishers, London, 1979.
• "Legal Needs of the Poor and Disadvantaged", B. Garth, ed., Madison, Wisconsin, 1983.
• "Los trabajadores migratorios frente a la justicia norteamericana", S.T.P.S.-FONEP, Mexico, 1983.
• "El papel de juez en la resolución de Litigios Familiares", in International Congress of Comparative Law; National reports, H. Nakamura (ed.) Tokio, Japan, 1984.
• "Administración de justicia y composición de conflictos laborales", in El Obrero Mexicano, Vol. 4, 21st century, Mexico, 1985.
• "El Veto Suspensivo", in El Refrendo y las Relaciones entre el Congreso y el Ejecutivo, UNAM-Porrúa, 1987.
• "El regimen de partidos", in Jornadas Jurídicas Nacionales, Fenase-Porrúa, 1987.
• "Fuentes e interpretación del derecho parlamentario", in Derecho Parlamentario Iberoamericano, Porrúa, 1987.
• "Nuevos mecanismos de defensa del ciudadano frente a la administración pública", in Administración Pública Contemporánea en México, Mexico, 1993.
• "Presidentialisme en democratie. Het geval van Mexico", in Drie Kwesties in Latijns Amerikas, L. Malaver and M. Oostra., ed. LASO, Amsterdam, 2002.
• "Decision on the Follow-up to the OPCW Action Plan on Article VII: Ensuring the Effective Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention", with L. Tabassi and Ralf Trapp, The CBW Conventions Bulletin, 69–70, September–December 2005, pp. 5–10.
• "Lessons learned: Chemicals trader convicted of war crimes", with B. Exterkate, L. Tabassi and E. van der Borght, Journal Judiciaire de La Haye, volume 2, number 1, 2007, pp. 23–42.
• "Sustaining follow-up to the Action Plan on Article VII: National Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention", with M. Lak, L. Tabassi and K-S. Melzer, in Chemical Disarmament, volume 5, number 1, March 2007, pp. 18–24.
• "Industry Role in the Non-proliferation of Chemical Weapons", International Law Association, 74th Conference, The Hague, August 2010.
• "The Chemical Weapons Convention: An Overview", Audiovisual Library of International Law, UN, 2010.
• "The Relation between Due Process in International and National Human Rights Instruments and International Adjudication Mechanisms", en The Development and Effectiveness of International Administrative Law, edited by O. Elias, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden-Boston, 2012, pp. 375–385.

External links

• Lecture by Santiago Oñate Laborde entitled The Chemical Weapons Convention: an Overview in Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
• Santiago Oñate Laborde's profile on the website of the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the Council of Europe.

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Party Leader Resigns Under Fire in Mexico – New York Times . . 14 December 1996 . 2011-01-13.
2. Web site: Strange Tale of Abduction By Governor From Mexico – New York Times . . 20 August 1995 . 2011-01-13.