Daniel Solod

Daniil Semenovich Solod (Russian Даниил Семёнович Солод; * 1908 in the Ukraine, † 1988) was a Soviet ambassador.

Life

Daniil Semenovich Solod was a member of the CPSU and in 1937 joined the Foreign Service.

He was from 1937 to 1939 a member of the People's Commissariat of the USSR. He led from 1939 to 1940 the staff of the People's Commissariat. He was accredited from 1940 to 1941 at the Embassy in Belgrade. In 1941 he was employed in Moscow. From 1941 to 1943 he was accredited at the embassy in Tehran. From 1943 to 1944 he was accredited as a Counsellor in Cairo. From 1944 to 1950 he was consul in Egypt. During his tenure in Syria he was accredited with his office Damascus also with the Government of Lebanon as an ambassador. He was adopted in 1950 with participation of the Syrian notables in Damascus. From 1951 to 1953 he was Deputy of Head of Middle East at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow.

1954 Solod was promoted to ambassador in Cairo. In his tenure as ambassador in Cairo, the beginning of the Suez crisis fell. He was instrumental in the orientation of the Free Officers under Ali Muhammad Naguib with the Soviet Union out. In this phase, the plans for large Aswan Dam Egypt and concretized strategically oriented to the Soviet Union.

From 1956 to 1960 he was Deputy Head of the Department of the Middle East at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow.

On December 30, 1959, he was appointed ambassador to Guinea. In November 1961 he Ahmed Sékou Touré accused of being involved in a conspiracy of teachers. At a diplomatic reception in Conakry Solod was pulled from the Chief of Protocol to the side and ordered the Foreign Ministry, where he was declared persona non grata. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev sent in January 1962 a new ambassador to Conakry. Externally, Ahmed Sékou Touré oriented in a row, more to Mao Zedong.

From 1962 to 1970 he taught at the Institute of Africa at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.