Yuli Vorontsov

Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov (also Yuliy Vorontsov; Russian: Юлий Михайлович Воронцов; October 7, 1929 – December 12, 2007) was a Soviet and Russian diplomat, President of International Centre of the Roerichs (Moscow).^[1] In the mid-1970s, he was Chargé d'Affaires at the Soviet embassy in Washington under Ambassador Dobrynin.^[2] He was then Ambassador to India (1978–1983) and France (1983–1986).^[2] He returned to Moscow to be the first deputy foreign minister (1986–1990) and participated in arms reduction talks with the United States.^[1][2] From 1988 to 1989, he was simultaneously the Ambassador to Afghanistan as Soviet troops withdrew from the country.^[1] He then served as the last Soviet ambassador to United Nations between 1990 and 1991 and as the first Russian Permanent Representative to the UN from 1991 to 1994.^[1] After this, he served as the Russian ambassador to the United States from 1994 to 1998.^[1][2] In 2000, Vorontsov was chosen as the high-level coordinator for issues related to a paragraph of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1284 which once again required Iraq to face "its obligations regarding the repatriation or return of all Kuwaiti and third country nationals or their remains, [and] the return of all Kuwaiti property [...] seized by Iraq" (during the invasion of Kuwait).^[2][3]

PresidentBoris Yeltsin

Preceded byVladimir Lukin

Succeeded byYuri Ushakov

Preceded byAlexander Belonogov

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Yuli Vorontsov
Юлий Воронцов
Vorontsov in 2006
Russian Ambassador to the United States
In office 23 July 1994 – 16 December 1998
President	Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Vladimir Lukin
Succeeded by	Yuri Ushakov
Soviet/Russia Ambassador to the United Nations
In office 18 April 1990 – 23 July 1994
Preceded by	Alexander Belonogov
Succeeded by	Sergey Lavrov
Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan
In office 14 October 1988 – 15 September 1989
Preceded by	Nikolai Yegorychev
Succeeded by	Boris Pastukhov
Soviet Ambassador to France
In office 20 January 1983 – 19 June 1986
Preceded by	Stepan Chervonenko
Succeeded by	Yakov Ryabov
Soviet Ambassador to India
In office 24 December 1977 – 20 January 1983
Preceded by	Viktor Maltsev
Succeeded by	Vasily Rykov
Personal details
Born	(1929-10-07)7 October 1929 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	12 December 2007(2007-12-12) (aged 78) Moscow, Russian Federation
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery
Alma mater	MGIMO
Profession	Diplomat
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