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Corneliu Mănescu

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Corneliu Mănescu (1916 - June 26 2000) was a Romanian diplomat. He served as foreign minister of Romania from 1961 to 1972 and as president of the United Nations General Assembly from 1967 to 1968. He was the first communist to be president of the UN General Assembaly. In 1989, he became a leader of the reformist movement within the Romanian Communist Party, and was part of the council that administered Romania in 1990 from the overthrow of the Nicolae Ceauşescu government until elections could be held. He died at a hospital in Bucharest, Romania.