Georgios Papoulias

Georgios Dimitrios Papoulias (born May 19, 1927 in Athens , † September 11, 2009 in Kolonaki ) was a Greek diplomat and from 1989 to 1990 two foreign ministers of Greece.

Biographical data

He studied law at the University of Athens and business administration at the Athens University of Economics . From 1950 to 1951 he was a lieutenant in the Greek Army . In 1955 he joined the foreign service. From 1957 he was employed in New Delhi until 1964 in Bonn , at the Permanent Mission of the Greek Government to the United Nations Office in Geneva , in Paris. In 1971 he became permanent representative of the Greek military junta at UNESCO . After the Greek military junta he was permanent representative of the Greek government next to the UN headquarters from 1975 to 1978 . From 1979 to 1983 he was ambassador to Ankara . On September 19, 1983, he was appointed Ambassador to Washington, DC , where he was accredited from October 24, 1983 to September 21, 1989. From October 12 to November 23, 1989 he was Foreign Minister in the coalition government of Tzannis Tzannetakis . From February 16 to April 11, 1990 he was again foreign minister in the cabinet of Konstantinos Mitsotakis . A serious illness caused him to commit suicide .

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ The International Who's Who, 1997–1998, Europa Publications, 1997–1685 pp . 1154

predecessor	Office	successor
Denis Carayannis	Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations 1975 to 1978	Nikolaos Katapodis
Alexandros Dhimitropoulos	Greek ambassador to Turkey from 1979 to 1983	Dhimitrios Makris
George Sioris	Greek Ambassador to the United States October 24, 1983 to September 21, 1989	Christos Zacharakis