Stanoje Simić

Stanoje Simić
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the SFR Yugoslavia
In office 1 February 1946 – 31 August 1948
President	Ivan Ribar
Prime Minister	Josip Broz Tito
Preceded by	Josip Broz Tito (acting)
Succeeded by	Edvard Kardelj
Personal details
Born	(1893-07-29)29 July 1893 Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia
Died	26 February 1970(1970-02-26) (aged 76) Belgrade, PR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Resting place	Belgrade New Cemetery
Political party	League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Alma mater	University of Belgrade Faculty of Law

Stanoje Simić (Serbian Cyrillic: Станоје Симић; 29 July 1893 – 26 February 1970) was a Serbian lawyer, politician and diplomat who was the SFR Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Affairs^[1] and the Ambassador to the United States.^[2] In January 1946, he was the Soviet candidate to become the first Secretary General of the United Nations, but was opposed by the United States.^[3] The two eventually compromised in the Norwegian socialist Trygve Lie for the position.^[3]

References

1. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia. "Lista popečitelja i ministara inostranih poslova od obrazovanja prve vlade 1811. godine do današnjeg dana" (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-04-23.
2. (in Serbian) Dragoš Petrović, Predrag Krejić, Српски и југословенски дипломатски представници у Сједињеним Америчким Државама 1917–1945
3. Hamilton, Thomas J. (1950). "The U. N. and Trygve Lie". Foreign Affairs. 29 (1): 69. doi:10.2307/20030815. ISSN 0015-7120.