Lazar Mojsov

Dr. Lazar Mojsov (born December 19 1920 in Negotino, Republic of Macedonia) was a Yugoslavian/Macedonian journalist, politician and diplomat.

Mojsov received a doctorate from the faculty of law in Belgrade. He fought for the antifascist partisans in World War II and continued to rise through the ranks of the Communist Party after 1945. He was attorney general of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia from 1948 to 1951. During the next two decades he served as a member of the parliaments of Yugoslavia and Macedonia and as a newspaper editor. Meanwhile, he began a diplomatic career, serving as Yugoslav ambassador to the Soviet Union and Mongolia from 1958 to 1961 and as ambassador to Austria from 1967 to 1969. From 1969 to 1974 he served as Yugoslav ambassador to the United Nations, Guyana and Jamaica. From 1974 to 1982 he was deputy foreign minister of Yugoslavia, and from 1977 to 1978 he was the president of the United Nations General assembaly. From 1980 to 1981 he served as president of Yugoslavia and from May 1982 to May 1984 he was foreign minister. From 1984 to 1989 he was a member of the collective presidency of Yugoslavia and was its chairman from 1987 to 1988. He has also been a lecturer and writer on international relations.