Hans Tabor

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Hans Rasmussen Tabor (born April 25, 1922 in Copenhagen ; † November 19, 2003 ) was a Danish diplomat and politician of the Social Democrats who was ambassador on several occasions and was briefly foreign minister between October 1967 and January 1968.

Life

Diplomat and permanent representative to the EEC, Euratom, ECSC and UN

After attending the state school in Birkerød in 1940, Tabor began studying political science , which he graduated in 1948. After a brief post in the Directorate for Vareforsyning , he first became secretary in the General Secretariat of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) in Paris , which was founded in 1948 , before he worked for the Foreign Ministry between 1950 and 1952. Then back to Paris and was first attaché and later embassy secretary of the delegation of Denmark to the OEEC. In 1956 he became secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked there until 1957 as assistant to the General Secretary with matters relating to the use of the Suez Canal and was then an agent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) came into force on January 1, 1958, Tabor became Secretary of the Embassy for questions relating to the EEC and EURATOM at the Danish Embassy in Belgium , before becoming the first permanent member on December 1, 1961 Representative at the EEC, EURATOM and the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), which was founded in 1951 . Initially he was there as envoy and, since 1963, with the rank of ambassador, head of this permanent mission.

On May 1, 1964, Tabor moved to the United Nations in New York City as permanent representative and was a member of the UN Security Council until October 2, 1967 and also its chairman during the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt in June 1967.

Foreign Minister and Ambassador

On October 2, 1967, Tabor, who was a member of the Social Democrats, was appointed Foreign Minister ( Udenrigsminister ) by Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag in his second cabinet , which he held until his defeat in the Folketing elections on January 23, 1968 and the associated end of Krags Term of office on February 2, 1968. During this short term in office he campaigned for the ratification of the final protocols after the 1964 and 1967 Kennedy Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which resulted in an anti-dumping agreement to avoid falling prices and a lesson on development led.

Following his tenure as foreign minister, Tabor worked as ambassador to Italy between 1968 and 1974 and had also been accredited as ambassador to Malta since 1969 . He then became Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Mission to the UN in New York City again in May 1974 and abstained from the vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations on the question of whether the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) at the meeting on October 14, 1974 should be given the right to speak, the voice. After the daily newspaper Kristeligt criticized Dagblad on October 18, 1974 as the ambassador's personal opinion, Foreign Minister Ove Guldberg announced on October 23, 1974 that Denmark had voted in favor of a right to speak, that Tabor had acted incorrectly and that Tabor's abstention was only the ambassador's personal responsibility would have been.

On November 5, 1975, Tabor was recalled by Guldberg as permanent ambassador to the UN, and with effect from January 1, 1975 , he was transferred to Canada as ambassador , where he worked until 1979. He felt his transfer was “unjust and brutal” ('primeval og brutal'). After completing his duties as Ambassador to Canada, he served as Head of the Permanent Mission to the OECD in Paris from 1979 to 1986 and was also Chairman of the Executive Committee of the OECD from 1983 to 1986.

Most recently, Tabor became Denmark's ambassador to Norway in 1986 and held this position until he retired in 1992.

Publications

  • Danmark and Marshall Planen , 1952
  • De seks og det økonomiske samarbejde i Vesten , 1961
  • Krig og krise - trods FN , 1977

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Danish Governments ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politikerlede.com
  2. ↑ Bo Lidegaard: Jens Otto Krag: 1962–1978 , Volume 2, 2003, ISBN 87-02-02204-4 , p. 377 f.
personal data
SURNAME Tabor, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tabor, Hans Rasmussen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2003