Budimir Lončar
Croatian politician (born 1924) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Budimir Lončar (born 1 April 1924) is a Croatian retired politician and diplomat who served as a Minister of Foreign Affairs of SFR Yugoslavia from 1987 until 1991.[3]
Budimir Lončar | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 31 December 1987 – 12 December 1991 | |
Prime Minister | Branko Mikulić Ante Marković |
Preceded by | Raif Dizdarević |
Succeeded by | Milivoje Maksić (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | (1924-04-01) 1 April 1924 (age 100) Preko, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Croatia)[1] |
Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1945–1990) |
Parents | |
He served as Ambassador of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Indonesia, Germany and the United States.[3] In 1984, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of SFRY, and in 1987 Minister of Foreign Affairs. He held this post until the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991. During the World War II Lončar joined Yugoslav Partisans anti-Axis resistance movement.[4]
From 1993 to 1995 he served as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Non-Aligned Movement.[3] He was advisor in various NGOs, like Appeal of Conscience Foundation, The World Council of Religious and Spiritual Leaders in New York City, and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. He later served as an advisor to Croatian presidents Stjepan Mesić and Ivo Josipović.