Cardozo M. Luna

Lieutenant General Cardozo M. Luna (born September 7, 1953) is the former Philippine Ambassador to the Netherlands. Luna was based in The Hague, the Legal Capital of the World and the International City of Peace and Justice. He is a retired three-star general and the 35th Vice Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the second highest position in the AFP hierarchy. Cardozo Luna also served as the commander of two unified commands, Eastern Mindanao Command and Central Command. He descended from the Luna clans of Badoc, Ilocos Norte where the ancestry of Antonio Luna and Juan Luna, members of the 1896 Philippine Revolution also came from. He retired from the military service on the 1st of May 2009 in view of his nomination to the post of Philippine Ambassador to the Netherlands. He was a Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Philippines to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an international agency, located in The Hague, Netherlands. He also served as a Governor of the Common Fund for Commodities, a UN funded organization assisting Third World countries to increase food production. He served as the focal person for the Philippines' defense engagements not only in Netherlands but as well as with other countries in Europe. During his ambassadorship, the Philippines marked a milestone by officially becoming the 70th member of the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the 111th member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.