Andrei Gromyko

Soviet diplomat and statesman, in 1957-1985 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, in 1985-1988 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Doctor of Economics (1956). In 1944, the USSR Ambassador to the United States, Gromyko, led the Soviet delegation at the International Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, USA, on the creation of the United Nations. Participated in the preparation of the Tehran conference, preparation and conduct of the Yalta conference, Crimea, USSR (1945), the conference in Potsdam (1945). In the same year, he led a delegation that signed the UN Charter on behalf of the USSR at a conference in San Francisco, USA. Gromyko was a member of, and then headed, state delegations of the USSR at 22 sessions of the UN General Assembly. Since the late 1940s, in the interests of the USSR, Gromyko has used the veto right in the UN Security Council more than 20 times, as a result of which he first received the nickname "Mister No" in the diplomatic environment and then in the press. Being a supporter of peaceful relations between the USSR and the United States and their NATO partners - Western European states, Gromyko, on behalf of the Soviet government, proposed more than 100 initiatives in the field of disarmament, his role during the lowest point of Soviet-American relations - the Caribbean crisis - is the subject of scientific and historical discussions. Gromyko put forward the initiative to conclude a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tes…