Alexis Kyrou
Alexis Kyrou ( Greek Αλέξης Κύρου , born July 24, 1901 in Athens , † September 1969 ) was a Greek diplomat .
Life
His father Adonis Kyrou (Άδωνις Κύρου), a Cypriot , born in Nicosia , was the owner and editor of the Athens newspaper Estia from 1899 to 1918 . Alexis Adonidos Kyrou studied law at the Universities of Athens and Paris .
In 1923 he entered the foreign service of Greece. From 1926 to 1927 he was legation secretary to the Greek legation at the League of Nations in Geneva . In the terms of office of Andreas Michalakopoulos as Foreign Minister from 1926 to 1927 and from 1929 to 1930 he was his private secretary.
In the meantime from 1928 to 1929 he was Consul General in Constantinople . In 1930 he was appointed Consul General of Greece in Limassol .
On October 24, 1931, at the height of the island-wide unrest , he was declared a persona non grata in agreement with the British government . He had close ties with Makarios III. , at that time Bishop of Kition , and other nationalist agitators inside and outside the island's Legislative Council.
From 1932 to 1936 Kyrou was legation secretary in Berlin . Until 1938 he was employed in Belgrade .
From August to October 1940 Ioannis Metaxas sent him to Berlin.
From 1939 until the occupation of Greece in 1941, Kyrou was head of department in the Greek Foreign Ministry in Athens. After the liberation of Greece, he was Secretary General of the Greek delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946 . From 1946 he represented the Greek government at the General Assembly of the United Nations , in 1949 he became chairman of the Administrative and Budget Committee there.
From 1947 to 1950 he was the first permanent representative of the Greek government next to the UN headquarters in New York City . During this term of office, from 1952 to 1953, Greece took one of the temporary seats on the United Nations Security Council for the first time . Kyrou used this function to promote the annexation of Cyprus to Greece, which not least led to the implementation of a referendum by the Church of Cyprus on the affiliation of Cyprus to Greece's Enosis referendum of 1950.
In 1954, Kyrou resigned as Director General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens, on the grounds that the Greek government had not responded to his expectations when John Foster Dulles gave in to a vote on the Cyprus conflict .
In January 1964 the Georgios Papandreou government sent him to Bonn as ambassador . In this capacity he worked from 1967 to the end of 1968 during the Greek military dictatorship .
Kyrou was the brother of Achileus, the editor and co-owner of the Athens newspaper Estia .
Kyrou was married and had a daughter.
Web links
- Alexis Kyrou in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ United Nation Assembly, News, 1951, UNA News - Google Books (1)
- ↑ UNA News - Google Books (2)
- ^ United Nations Reporter - Google Books
- ↑ Alexis Kyrou - Munzinger biography
- ↑ Gastarbeiter, Dear Piano, April 10, 1967 - spiegel.de
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
|
Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations from 1947 to 1950 |
Christos Xanthopoulos-Palamas | |
| Themistoklis Tsatsos |
Greek Ambassador to Germany January 1964 – late 1968 |
Miltiadis Delivanis |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kyrou, Alexis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Κύρου, Αλέξης (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1969 |