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2010.
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THE TRAGIC 20th CENTURY, which was mixing up ideologies, breaking up socioeconomic systems, unleashing global wars and then keeping the world almost continuously in a state of tense instability, at the same time gave rise to the special need for skillful, sophisticated and strong diplomacy. This effective foreign policy tool was being honed for decades and increasingly used by our country for the protection of its security and peaceful development.
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2009.
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THE YEAR 2009 marks the birth centenary of Andrei Andreevich Gromyko. Most diplomats of my generation and an important number of current ambassadors, top- and medium-ranking Foreign Ministry officials worked under him in some or other capacity. They were learning the ropes of the intricate art of conducting foreign policy under very harsh Cold War conditions in the illustrious shade of the Master of Diplomacy of the 20th century. Each of us must remember him in their own way.
I was fortunate to have had a chance to learn from many people the hard job (if you take it seriously) of a diplomat who must acquire the knowledge of many sciences and skills, special techniques (not unlike those of a musician) of this largely unique trade, erudition, logic and verbal skills. A.A. Gromyko was someone you could learn all these from.
From a distance, Andrei Gromyko seemed to be the cold and inaccessible summit of the Himalayas. At a closer range he was different - an attentive and calm person with a gentle sense of humor which he was trying to conceal. He wasn't dour by nature and more often than not he was concentrated and lost in his thoughts. At the same time he was of course a multifaceted character. I was fortunate to be one of his subordinates to see him at work at a close enough range. At first I was member of his secretariat and then worked under him as member of the Foreign Ministry Collegiums and head of the USA and Canada Department.
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