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Andrei Gromyko (1909-1989) was the President of the USSR (1985-1988).

Short Biography:

As ambassador to the USA from 1943, he took part in the Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences; as United Nations representative (1946-1949), he exercised the Soviet veto 26 times. He was foreign minister (1957-1985).

It was Gromyko who formally nominated Mikhail Gorbachev as Communist Party leader in 1985.

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Tags: statesman, representative, minister

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