Corneliu Mănescu

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Corneliu Mănescu

Corneliu Mănescu (born February 8, 1916 in Ploieşti , † June 26, 2000 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian politician and diplomat. He was from 1961 to 1972 Secretary of State of his home and stood 1967/68 for one year the United Nations General Assembly as President before. During the Romanian Revolution in 1989 he played an important role in opposition to Nicolae Ceaușescu .

Mănescu studied law and economics at the University of Bucharest from 1936 to 1940 ; he was already working as a journalist here. After Romania's conquest by the Red Army in 1944, he worked in various positions in the state and the Communist Party . In 1948 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense and held the rank of Lieutenant General . During the second half of the 1950s, he was vice chairman of the state planning committee. In 1960/61 he was briefly the ambassador of his homeland in Hungary , but was soon appointed foreign minister of his country. After the end of his tenure as Romanian foreign minister , he served his country as an ambassador in major world capitals such as Paris until the early 1980s.

At the beginning of 1989 he and five other former leaders of the Romanian Communist Party initiated an open letter known as the Letter of the Six , in which they vehemently criticized the Ceaușescu government for disregarding civil rights and the dire economic situation and openly called for reforms. When the open uprising against Ceaușescu broke out in December 1989, Mănescu was one of the leading figures in the transitional government.

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SURNAME Mănescu, Corneliu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Ploieşti
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2000
Place of death Bucharest