Rajeshwar Dayal

Rajeshwar Dayal (born August 12, 1909 in Nainital , British India , † September 17, 1999 in New Delhi ) was an Indian diplomat .

Life

From 1953 to 1956 he was the permanent representative of the Indian government at the UN headquarters . From 1955 to 1958 he was Minister Resident in Belgrade and accredited to the governments in Sofia and Bucharest. From January to June 1958 he was also accredited with the government in Athens .

Following the adoption of Security Resolution 128 of 1958, Dag appointed Hammarskjöld , Rajeshwar Dayal and Odd Bull as members and Galo Plaza Lasso as chairman of the United Nations Observation Group in Lebanon (UNOGIL).

From September 1960 to May 1961, Rajeshwar Dayal led the United Nations operation in the Congo . Rajeshwar Dayal supported African diplomats in attempts to mediate between Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and President Joseph Kasavubu . Dayal had the house of Patrice Lumumba guarded by UN troops. The Central Intelligence Agency brought two hitmen to Léopoldville to gain access to Lumumba, while Larry Devlin encouraged the government of Mobutu Sese Seko to assassinate Patrice Lumumba. Dag Hammarskjöld called an extraordinary general assembly and called for Patrice Lumumba to return to his office as prime minister, appealed to the US government to move Joseph Kasavubu to a compromise. The US government did not want to know about it any more than it did about any parliamentary solution, since such a solution would undoubtedly have brought Lumumba back to power.

Publications

• A life of our Times, Orient Longman

predecessor	Office	successor
	Indian ambassador in Belgrade 1955-1958	Ali Yavar Jung
Andrew W. Cordier	Head of the United Nations Operation in Congo 1960–1961	Mekki Abbas

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former diplomat dead in The Tribune of September 19, 1999
2. ^ United Nations Observation Group in Lebanon
3. ^ Rajeshwar Dayal
4. ^ Rajeshwar Dayal, A Life Of Our Times .