Lennart Finnmark

Tor Lennart Finnmark (18 January 1917 – 2 September 1993) was a Swedish diplomat.

Early life Finnmark was born on 18 January 1917 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the son of Frithiof Finnmark, a pharmacist, and his wife Signe (née Lindberg). He passed his studentexamen in 1936 and received a Candidate of Law degree from Lund University in 1940. Finnmark became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1940. He served in Moscow in 1947 and was back serving at the Foreign Ministry in 1948 and then in Moscow again in 1948. Finnmark became extra first secretary in 1949. Finnmark then served at the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) in Paris in 1949, was extraordinary first secretary in 1952 and extraordinary first secretary with embassy counsellor's position at the delegation of the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg in 1952. He became first secretary in 1956 and served at the United Nations Secretariat in New York City from 1956 to 1958 and was acting embassy counsellor in Paris from 1958 to 1961. Finnmark was sent to Korea to try and resolve the crisis over the North Korean capture of the United States Navy intelligence ship, the .

Finnmark was secretary representative and chairman of bilateral trade negotiations and representative at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva in 1947 and was chairman in aid policy negotiations with India and Pakistan in 1964.

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