György Nanovfszky, economist, diplomat, political scientist, linguist and writer, has died at the age of 79, the Ministry of Human Resources told MTI on Wednesday.
Nanovfszky was full member and professor of the Finno-Ugric Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Sciences of San Marino, founder of the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, and doctor of political sciences at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was director of the African programmes of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. Later on he served as director of the Vienna World Trade Centre and president of WTC Budapest.
From the early 1990s, Nanovfszky was Hungary’s ambassador to Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Singapore. During his term in Russia, he played a key role in finding and returning to Hungary the mortal remains of inter-war prime minister István Bethlen, and mediated between Pope John Paul II and Russian Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow.
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