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Article: Obituary: Gopalaswami Parthsarthy
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1995
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Gopalaswami Parthasarthy was India's ambassador to several
important countries and the UN, before becoming policy adviser on
foreign and domestic affairs to two prime ministers.
Besides serving two terms as chairman of the International
Commission for Supervision and Control in Cambodia and Vietnam
during the late Fifties and early Sixties, "GP", as he was
popularly known, was also head of the UN Security Council briefly
in the late Sixties. Thereafter he headed the Security Council's
Sanctions Committee on Rhodesia.
Parthasarthy is the only Indian diplomat to have served as
ambassador to Pakistan and China, both countries with which India
has been to war since independence 48 years ago. He ...