Vladimir Lomeiko
Personal details
Born(1935-11-27)27 November 1935
Novorossiysk, USSR
Died15 August 2009(2009-08-15) (aged 73)
Moscow, Russia

Vladimir Borissovich Lomeiko (Russian: Владимир Борисович Ломейко Novorossiysk 27 November 1935 – 15 August 2009 Moscow) was a Russian diplomat, later a Belarusian national. Lomeiko was the foreign policy spokesman of then Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnadze and the last spokesman of Mikhail Gorbachev before the end of the Soviet Union. Subsequently, Lomeiko assumed the position of the Russian Ambassador to UNESCO, as well as that of Special Advisor to the Director General of UNESCO. He lived in Baden-Baden and was Executive Chairman of the Baden-Baden-Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to German-Russian dialogue.

He visited a camp of the Scouts de France welcoming children affected by the Chernobyl disaster with the Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.[1]

Lomeiko became vice president of the World Scout Foundation, and was awarded the 274th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of WOSM, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting in 1999.[2]

He was a long-serving member of the supervisory board of the Global Panel Foundation


References

  1. ↑ "USSSP: A Scout's Duty to God and Country". usscouts.org. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. ↑ "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Retrieved 2019-05-01.


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