Valerian Zorin

Valerian Alexandrovich Sorin (Russian Валериан Александрович Зорин, scientific transliteration Valerian Alexandrovich Zorin; * January 1, 1902 in Novocherkassk, † January 14, 1986 in Moscow) was a Soviet diplomat. He achieved fame in the West, among others, by its position in the UN Security Council during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

Life

Sorin was a teacher's son and ended 1935, the communist higher education institution. By 1922 he had joined the Communist Party and worked until 1932 in the Moscow Central Committee of the Komsomol; Party work, he sat by his studies continued until 1941, when he was transferred to the Foreign Ministry. On 22 March 1945 he was Soviet ambassador in Prague, a position with significant influence on the young Czechoslovak government.

1947-1955 was Sorin Deputy Foreign Minister and partially the same time ( 1952-1953 ) Permanent Representative of the UN Security Council. As of January 7, 1955 he was the first Soviet Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1956 and returned back to Moscow as deputy foreign minister to take up his post again. After five years as a candidate he was elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1961.

In the UN Security Council

1960-1962 we sent him for the second time as Ambassador to the UN Security Council; the climax of his time there was the Cuban Missile Crisis, when he was confronted by the U.S. Ambassador Adlai Ewing Stevenson II with the reconnaissance photographs of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba:

Today it is known that neither Sorin nor the Soviet ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Dobrynin, had been informed of Moscow on missile deployments.

1965 Sorin ambassador to France; 1971, at the age of almost 70 years, he was appointed to a purely representative post as special envoy.