Paul John Firmino Lusaka (10 January 1935 – 11 November 1996[1]) was a Zambian politician and diplomat who became President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1984.

He attended Roma University College in Lesotho where he obtained a degree in history and geography in 1959.

The following year he was on an exchange programme that took him to the University of Minnesota funded by the Ford Foundation.

[2] His 1963 Master's Degree in Political Geography was from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and he was also trained in diplomacy by the Canadian United Nations contingent.

In 1985 the New York Times recorded that after a meeting with ten former U.N. Presidents he said, There was no south, there was no north, no east and no west—just the 11 apostles.