Nicolás Rodríguez Aztiazarain

Nicolás Rodríguez Aztiazarain (born September 10, 1936 in Havana ) is a former Cuban diplomat . From 1975 to 1979 he was the ambassador of the Republic of Cuba in the GDR .

Life

He studied in the Cuban capital and in 1955 joined the active fight against the Batista dictatorship . He began his diplomatic career in 1959 as a consul in Key West . In 1960 he was appointed to the Ministry of Industry, in 1963 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There he was initially department head in the Asia division and from 1964 deputy director. In 1966 he became an advisor to the UN Mission to Cuba. In 1968/69 he worked again in Havana before he went in 1969 as chargé d'affaires for the Cuban embassy in the People's Republic of Poland and in 1971 as ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Romania .

On June 4, 1975 he took up his post as ambassador to the GDR, which he held for four years. On April 16, 1979 he was received by the Chairman of the State Council of the GDR, Erich Honecker , for a farewell visit and awarded the medal “ Star of Friendship of Nations ” in gold.

Later he was ambassador to Argentina .

See also

→ List of the Cuban ambassadors in the German Democratic Republic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief portrait of Nicolas Rodriguez Aztiazarain . In: The morning of January 12, 1979.
2. ↑ Ambassadors handed over their credentials . In: Neues Deutschland , June 5, 1975, p. 2.
3. ↑ Erich Honecker received Cuba's ambassador . In: Neues Deutschland , April 17, 1979, p. 1.