Denis Carayannis

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Denis Carayannis (born May 5, 1918 in Rhodes , † after 1975 ) was a Greek diplomat.

Biographical data

In 1947 he joined the foreign service. From 1947 to 1951 he was employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens . From 1951 to 1952 he was consul in Chicago . In 1952 he was consul in New York City . From 1952 to 1958 he was employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens. From 1962 to 1964 he was Consul General in Paris. From 1964 to 1970 he headed the Department of Political Affairs for the Middle East and Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1964 to 1965, 1968 and 1974 he was a delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations . From 1971 to 1973 he was the Greek ambassador to Albania. During this time, in the wake of Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972 , many Western governments established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China . Denis Carayannis signed a joint declaration for the Greek military dictatorship in Tirana. From July 27th 1974 to 1975 he was the permanent representative of the Greek government next to the UN headquarters . On September 8 and 10, 1975, he was sent to Istanbul for talks . In 1951 he married Hari K Veniselos.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wikileaks , [1]
  2. ↑ Diplomatic Relations Established Between China and Greece Chinese Ambassador to the People's Republic of Albania Liu Chen-hua and Greek Ambassador to the People's Republic of Albania Denis N. Carayannis signed a joint communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Greece in Tirana on June 5. The communique said: "In accordance with the principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial [2] [3]
  3. ↑ Who's who in the United Nations and Related Agencies, Arno Press, 1975, p. 94 [4] [5] , Kurt Waldheim [6]
predecessor Office successor
Pericles Skeferis Greek ambassador to Albania in
1971 and 1973 		Spiridhon Dhokianos
Konstantinos Panagiotakos Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations
July 27, 1974 to 1975 		Georgios Papoulias
personal data
SURNAME Carayannis, Denis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ντένις Καραγιάννης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Rhodes
DATE OF DEATH after 1975