Yakov Alexandrovich Malik (russian: Яков Александрович Малик) (11 February 1980) was a

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diplomat.

Biography

Born in Ostroverkhovka village,

Kharkov Governorate The Kharkov Governorate ( pre-reform Russian: , tr. ''Khárkovskaya gubérniya'', IPA: �xarʲkəfskəjə ɡʊˈbʲernʲɪjə ) was a governorate of the Russian Empire founded in 1835. It embraced the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. Fro ...

, Malik was educated at Kharkiv Institute of National Economy (1930). Then, he worked as an economist and the

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's functionary in

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. He served as Ambassador in Japan from 1942 until 1945, the moment the Soviet government declared war on the Japanese Empire on Aug. 9. Malik was the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations from 1948 to 1952, and from 1968 to 1976. At the time of the

United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 was a measure adopted by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on June 25, 1950. The resolution condemned the "armed attack on the Republic of Korea by forces from North Korea", while calling ...

on 25 June 1950, Malik was boycotting the presence of a Nationalist Chinese representative. His absence enabled the resolution to pass unanimously with a 9–0 vote. On the floor of the United Nations on 23 June 1951, he proposed an

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in the

Korean War , date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...

between Red China and

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on one hand, and

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, the

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, and other

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forces on the other. Malik is also well known for giving the USSR justifications for the

occupation of Czechoslovakia Occupation commonly refers to: *Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment *Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces *Military occupation, th ...

at the Security Council in August 1968. He vetoed the two resolutions regarding the invasion (resolution requesting the liberation of the arrested Czechoslovak politicians and the removal of the communist armies from

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

and the resolution requiring the selection of Special Envoy to Czechoslovakia). In 1955, as Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom, he switched on the

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. From 1967 to 1971 he was the head of the Africa department of the Soviet ministry of Foreign affairs. During this time he initiated the covert operation Bukran, which established a spy network in several African countries.

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* * 1906 births 1980 deaths People from Kharkiv Oblast People from Kharkov Governorate Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Soviet Union) Permanent Representatives of the Soviet Union to the United Nations Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Japan Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom {{russia-diplomat-stub