Dimitris Perrikos ( el, Δημήτρης Περρίκος, born December 1935 in
Piraeus
Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens' city centre, along the east coast of the Saronic ...
,
Greece
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) is a
Greek
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**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
chemist working for the
United Nations
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since 1975.
He was the second Chairman of the
(UNMOVIC), succeeding Dr.
Hans Blix
Hans Martin Blix (; born 28 June 1928) is a Sweden, Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party (Sweden), Liberal People's Party. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs (Sweden), Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979 ...
in June 2003,
and serving until UNMOVIC's dissolution in 2007. He is the son of the Greek Air Force officer and
Resistance fighter
Kostas Perrikos
Kostas Perrikos ( el, Κώστας Περρίκος; 23 April 1905 – 4 February 1943) was a Greek Air Force officer and leader of the PEAN resistance movement in World War II. He is the father of the UN arms control Commissioner Dimitris Perri ...
, founder of
PEAN
The Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths ( el, Πανελλήνιος Ένωσις Αγωνιζόμενων Νέων, ''Panellínios Énosis Agonizómenon Néon'', ΠΕΑΝ, PEAN) was a Greek Resistance organization during the Axis Occupation o ...
.
References
1935 births
Living people
People from Piraeus
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni
Greek chemists
Greek officials of the United Nations
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