New Ambassador to U.N. Named
The Soviet Union today announced the appointment of Alexander Belonogov, a career diplomat and former ambassador to Egypt, as its new permanent representative to the United Nations.
Belonogov, 55, replaces Yuri Dubinin, who held the job for only two months before he was made ambassador to the United States last May.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov announced the appointment at a news briefing.
Belonogov was successively third secretary, second secretary and first secretary at the Soviet Embassy in London from 1962 to 1967 and later held posts in the Foreign Ministry apparatus in Moscow. He was appointed ambassador to Egypt in July, 1984.
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