Per Göran Gustaf Ryding (17 September 1916 – 12 February 2007) was a Swedish diplomat. He was the ambassador of Sweden to Finland between 1971 and 1975 and to the Soviet Union and Mongolia between 1975 and 1979.
Biography
Ryding was born in 1916.
[ He joined the ]Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and relations, diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral r ...
in 1939.[ He worked as an ]attaché
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at the Swedish Embassy in Rome from 1940 and 1942 and at the Swedish Embassy in London from 1945 to 1948.[ Then he was named as the first secretary of the Swedish mission at the Organization for European Economic Cooperation in Paris in 1954 and was made the head of the mission in 1955 which he held until 1956.][ He was the councilor of the Swedish Embassy in Moscow between 1958 and 1961.][ He was appointed ambassador of Sweden to Finland in 1971 which he held until 1975.][ Next he was appointed ambassador of Sweden to the Soviet Union in 1975 and remained in office until 1979.][
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Personal life
Ryding was married to Cecilia Wersäll. He died in Stockholm in March 2007.
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1916 births
2007 deaths
20th-century Swedish diplomats
Ambassadors of Sweden to Finland
Ambassadors of Sweden to the Soviet Union
Ambassadors of Sweden to Mongolia
People from Söderhamn Municipality