Jean-Paul Van Bellinghen

Jean-Paul Van Bellinghen (born October 21, 1925 - December 5, 1993 ) was a Belgian diplomat .

Life

Jean-Paul Van Bellinghen joined his country's diplomatic service in 1958 and became an attaché in Cairo . In 1960 he was at the UN headquarters and from 1961 to 1962 in Washington .

Until 1965 he and Jean van den Bosch propagated the Air Union as a European aviation cartel.

"The Air Union could fly half the price and still have free champagne served on board."

- Jean-Paul Van Bellinghen

From April 2, 1975, Van Bellinghen was office manager of Foreign Minister Renaat Van Elslande and declared that the Belgian government would prefer the Dassault Mirage to the General Dynamics F-16 for an arms contract if the French government agreed to integrate it into the European aviation industry.

Until 1990 he was the Belgian ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elwyn James Blattner, James Elwyn Blattner, Who's who in UAR and the Near East , Paul Barbey Press, 1958
2. ↑ Air Union - Europe without air . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1965 ( online ).
3. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany , p. 348
4. ^ Marina Boudart, Michel Boudart, René Bryssinck, Modern Belgium , Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 1990 - 561 S., S. XXV
5. ^ The London diplomatic list Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, HMSO, 1988 Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Edouard Longerstaey	Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations in Geneva 1971–1973	Paul Noterdaeme
Eugen Rittweger de Moor	Belgian Ambassador in Kinshasa July 14, 1980 - December 1, 1983	Luc Putman
Robert Rothschild	Belgian Ambassador in London February 15, 1984 - 1990	Jean-Michel Veranneman de Watervliet