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Ambassador of Yugoslavia to EEC (1968-1971)
A Slovene member of the LCY, banker, businessman and career diplomat, Miloš Oprešnik was appointed as Yugoslavia’s first official representative to the EEC in September 1968. Oprešnik belonged to a generation of politically-oriented diplomats who had positively regarded the launch of the 1965 process of market-oriented economic reforms. He was politically close to Boris Kraigher and Kiro Gligorov, leading Slovene intellectuals and members of the “liberal” wing of the LCY. His overall contribution to Yugoslavia’s stance towards the EEC developed between 1968 and 1972, when he was replaced by Petar Miljević in the aftermath of the reshuffle of Slovenia’s leadership imposed by Tito. During this period, he actively worked to convey in Brussels Yugoslavia’s image as a reforming socialist country. He was often in Belgrade to participate in the meetings of the Commission for foreign economic relations with Toma Granfil and Boriš Šnuderl. Within this framework, he championed the country’s need to enhance economic cooperation with the EEC beyond the commercial sector, namely in the industrial and agricultural fields.
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A Macedonian member of the LCY, Kiro Gligovorv was among the protagonists of Yugoslavia’s market-oriented reforms in the mid-1960s. Accordingly, as a Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council between 1967 and 1969, he was in favour... |
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From the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, Boris Šnuderl was one of the leading actors of Yugoslavia’s policy towards the Western European economic system. A member of the Yugoslav government from 1971 to 1974, he was responsible for Y... |
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He was deputy-head of the Yugoslav embassy to the EEC throughout the 1970s, representing a factor of continuity of Yugoslavia’s stance in Community Brussels. Working closely with Miloš Oprešnik, Petar Miljević and Bora Jeft... |
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Toma Granfil was a Serbian member of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) between 1967 and 1971. During this period, he cooperated closely with his homologues Kiro Gligorov and Mika Špilijak; Yugoslav representative to EEC Miloš O... |
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Milica Žiberna worked uninterruptedly as an Assistant to the Federal foreign trade secretariat throughout the 1970s. In this function, she coordinated relations between the ministerial apparatus and the Yugoslav representation to the EEC. Not ... |
