Diego García-Sayán Larrabure (born August 2, 1950) is a Peruvian lawyer and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Perú. He sat as judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and was president of the Court between 2010 and 2012. He is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. On August 15, 2014, the Peruvian Government formally announced its launching of Dr. Garcia-Sayan's candidacy in the upcoming 2015 election for the post of Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), a decision which was rescinded unilaterally by the candidate himself on October 1, 2014, as a result of what he said was the said Government's lack of proper support towards that end. Biography García Sayán was born in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest son of Dr. Enrique García-Sayán, a former Foreign Affairs Minister of Perú who, in 1946, was associated, along with President José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, with launching the so-called "200 Nautical Miles (370.4 km) Territorial Doctrine", currently being adhered to and claimed by Benin, Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Liberia, Perú and Somalia. After the 1948 coup d´état which overthrew the constitutionally elected Government of President Bustamante, Dr. García-Sayán went into exile, working with the United Nations first in New York, then in Geneva, which led a year later to his son Diego's birth in the United States. Professional and political activities García-Sayán co-founded the Peruvian Center for International Studies (CEPEI) in 1980. He subsequently founded the Andean Commission of Jurists (CAJ) in 1982 and served as executive director until 2000 except for a brief hiatus from 1992 to 1994. He is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank the Inter-American Dialogue. He also worked for the United Nations in many expert and senior positions. He has served as member of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances from 1988 to 2004, including as chairperson of the mechanism. From 1991 to 1992 he joined the UN Negotiating Team appointed by Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to mediate into the Guatemalan Peace Process between the Government and the URNG. From 1992 to 1994 he worked as Director of the Human Rights Division within the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL). On 1995 he joined former United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar in his unsuccessful bid for the Presidency of the Republic of Peru against the incumbent candidate