Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (died 1996)

Leopoldo Benites was an Ecuadorian diplomat who served as the 28th President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973. He had been the permanent representative of Ecuador since October 1960.

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