Lazar Mojsov

Lazar Mojsov
34th President of the United Nations General Assembly
In office 1977–1978
Preceded by	Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe
Succeeded by	Indalecio Liévano
10th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
In office 15 May 1987 – 15 May 1988
Prime Minister	Branko Mikulić
Preceded by	Sinan Hasani
Succeeded by	Raif Dizdarević
8th Chairman of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
In office 20 October 1980 – 20 October 1981
President	Lazar Koliševski Cvijetin Mijatović Sergej Kraigher
Prime Minister	Veselin Đuranović
Preceded by	Josip Broz Tito
Succeeded by	Dušan Dragosavac
Personal details
Born	19 December 1920 Negotino, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died	25 August 2011 (aged 90) Belgrade, Serbia
Political party	League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ)
Alma mater	University of Belgrade

Lazar Mojsov (Macedonian: Лазар Мојсов; 19 December 1920 – 25 August 2011) was a Macedonian journalist, communist politician and diplomat from SFR Yugoslavia.

Biography

Mojsov received his doctoral degree from the University of Belgrade's Law School. He fought for the anti-fascist partisans in World War II and continued to rise through the ranks of the Communist Party after 1945. He was attorney general of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia from 1948 to 1951. During the next two decades, he served as a member of the parliaments of SFR Yugoslavia and SR Macedonia and as a newspaper editor.

Meanwhile, he began a diplomatic career, serving as Yugoslav ambassador to the Soviet Union and Mongolia from 1958 to 1961 and as ambassador to Austria from 1967 to 1969. From 1969 to 1974, he served as Yugoslav ambassador to the United Nations, Guyana and Jamaica.

From 1974 to 1982, Mojsov was deputy foreign minister of Yugoslavia, and, from 1977 to 1978, he was the president of the United Nations General Assembly. From 1980 to 1981, he served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and from May 1982 to May 1984, he was the foreign minister. From 1984 to 1989, he was a member of the collective presidency of Yugoslavia and was its chairman from 1987 to 1988.

Mojsov also lectured and wrote on the subject of international relations.

On 25 August 2011 Mojsov died at the age of 90 in Belgrade. He was laid to rest in Belgrade's Novo groblje cemetery's Alley of Distinguished Citizens.

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