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Greek politician and diplomat
Georgios Papoulias
(
Greek
:
Γε?ργιο? Παπο?λια?
; 19 May 1927,
Athens
? 11 September 2009,
Kolonaki
)
[1]
was a
Greek
politician
and
diplomat
. Papoulias briefly served as the
Foreign Minister of Greece
on two separate terms in 1989 and 1990.
Papoulias was born on 19 May 1927. He graduated from the Law School of the
University of Athens
, followed by studies at the
Higher School of Commerce
and Army service in 1950?1951 with the rank of Second Lieutenant.
[
citation needed
]
Papoulias entered the Greek Diplomatic Corps in 1955. His first foreign posting came in 1957, when he was sent to the Greek embassy in
New Delhi
. From there he was transferred to
Bonn
, where he remained until 1964 when he moved to the permanent Greek legation in
Geneva
.
[2]
After a domestic stint as head of the Foreign Ministry's Political Affairs Department, in 1971 he became ambassador to
France
and Greece's Permanent Delegate to the
UNESCO
. Following the fall of the
Greek military junta
in 1974, he became
Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations
, a post he held until 1979.
[
citation needed
]
After that he served as ambassador in
Ankara
(
Turkey
) and, after 1983, in
Washington DC
.
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citation needed
]
Papoulias' first term as Foreign Minister was in the
Ioannis Grivas
interim government from 12 October until 23 November 1989. He was re-appointed to the foreign ministry for a second time in the
Xenophon Zolotas
cabinet from 16 February until 11 April 1990.
Georgios Papoulias died from an apparent
suicide
on September 11, 2009, at the age of 82, following serious health problems.
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