- Anton Vratuša
Anton Vratuša (born
21 February 1915 ,Doljni Slaveči ,Murska Sobota ,Slovenia ) is a former politician and diplomat, who wasPrime Minister of Slovenia and Yugoslavia's ambassador to theUnited Nations .Vratuša was involved in the
Yugoslav People's Liberation War from 1941 onwards, and was interned in Italian concentration camps atGonars ,Treviso ,Padova and Rab from February 1942 to September 1943 [sl icon [http://www.sazu.si/o-sazu/clani/anton-vratusa.html Vratuša, Anton - Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti - sazu.si ] ] . AfterRab concentration camp was liberated by the Partisans, Vratuša was Deputy Commander of theirRab battalion , made up of camp survivors [sl icon [http://www.sazu.si/o-sazu/clani/anton-vratusa.html Vratuša, Anton - Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti - sazu.si ] ] . He was also head of the Yugoslav Partisans' delegation at CLNAI, the Italian Partisans' underground political entity during the German occupation ofItaly in the last years of theSecond World War [ [http://www.zrs-kp.si/SL/Zaloznistvo/acta/ActaXVI/vratusa.pdf Microsoft Word - vratusa.doc ] ] .After the war, Vratuša pursued an academic and diplomatic career. He was Chief of Staff to
Edvard Kardelj (1953-65); the UN Commissioner toSouth West Africa (nowNamibia ) (27 October 1966-13 June 1967) while it was under direct UN rule [ [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Namibia.htm Namibia ] ] and Yugoslavia's ambassador to theUnited Nations (1967-1969) [sl icon [http://www.sazu.si/o-sazu/clani/anton-vratusa.html Vratuša, Anton - Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti - sazu.si ] ] .From April 1978 to July 1980, Vratuša was Prime Minister of the
Socialist Republic of Slovenia [ [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Slovenia.html Slovenia ] ] .His published works include "The Commune in Yugoslavia" (1965) and "Prospects of the Non-Aligned Movement" (1981) [ [http://isq.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/1-2/67.pdf International Studies - Sign In Page ] ] .
Between 1985 and 1988 he was the author of various UN publications, especially in the fields of the law of the sea and politics in developing countries [ [http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=G1O9370V35743.14098&profile=bib&uri=link=3100010~!319746~!3100001~!3100040&aspect=alpha&menu=search&ri=2&source=~!horizon&term=Vratusa%2C+Anton.&index=#focus UNBISnet ] ] .
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* [http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/10/29/camp_ed3_.php/ Survivors of war camp lament Italy's amnesia]
* [http://www.sazu.si/o-sazu/clani/anton-vratusa.html Biography at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (in Slovene)]
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