Budimir Lončar

Budimir Lončar ( Serbian - Cyrillic Будимир Лончар ; born April 1, 1924 in Preko near Zadar ) is a former Yugoslav politician.

Life

Budimir Lončar joined the partisans in 1941 and became a member of the Communist Party in 1943 . From 1950 he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including as a consul in New York City and at the United Nations , as an ambassador in Indonesia , Malaysia and 1973–1977 in the Federal Republic of Germany . He also took part in numerous meetings of the Non-Aligned Movement.

In 1984 he became Deputy Foreign Minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , and in 1988 he succeeded Raif Dizdarević as Foreign Minister. Lončar supported economic reforms and sought his country's membership in the European Community . However, from 1990 the Federal Government of Yugoslavia was no longer able to assert itself against the nationalist leadership of the republics. After the beginning of the war , he resigned in December 1991. At the time he was quoted as saying that he was "Croatian in nationality, Democrat and Yugoslavian and, as far as my place of residence is concerned, Belgrade".

In December 1992 he was appointed by UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to head the UN Information Service in Vienna , where he remained until 1996. Since 2004 he has worked as a foreign policy advisor to the Croatian President Stjepan Mesić , and was also a foreign policy advisor for his successor, Ivo Josipović . He is the President of the Diplomatic Council of the University of International Relations and Diplomacy in Zagreb .

Fonts

La Yougoslavie et le processus d'integration en Europe , in: Politique étrangère ( ISSN 0032-342X ), Volume 55 (Spring 1990), pp. 83-91

literature

Hrvatska Enciklopedija , Volume 6, 2004
Who's who in the socialist countries of Europe , ed. By J. Stroynowski
Budimir Loncar , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 18/1993 of April 26, 1993, sheet P 018618-2, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

CV on the homepage of the University of International Relations and Diplomacy (Croatian)

Individual evidence

↑ Josipović predstavio Savjet za vanjsku politiku kojim predsjeda Budimir Lončar , index.hr, May 4, 2010 (Croatian)

personal data
SURNAME	Lončar, Budimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Лончар, Будимир (SrS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav politician, Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (1988–1991)
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Preko near Zadar

[advi-1] Josipović predstavio Savjet za vanjsku politiku kojim predsjeda Budimir Lončar , index.hr, May 4, 2010 (Croatian)