Petar Zdravkovski

Diplomatic career He was fluent in French and had a working knowledge of English, Russian and Turkish. He started his diplomatic career as a minister plenipotentiary (rank of ambassador) to the Yugoslav diplomatic mission in Helsinki, Finland (1950-1953). He was appointed chief of staff of the Department for Foreign Affairs in Belgrade (1953–1954) and consul general of Yugoslavia to Marseille, France (1954–1957). In 1965 he was appointed ambassador of Yugoslavia to Beirut, Lebanon (also accredited to Jordan), where after a short illness he died in 1967.

He was buried with high state honors in the Alley for Distinguished Citizens in the Butel Cemetery in Skopje.

Decorations He was awarded many national and international decorations:

Award Year Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941 26 October 1946 Yugoslav Fraternity and Unity Medal 1 June 1947 Yugoslav Medal of Merit 1 June 1947 Yugoslav Medal for Courage 14 April 1950 Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland 12 December 1952 Yugoslav Order of the Republic 27 November 1961 Officer of France's Legion of Honour 7 May 1956 Lebanese National Order of the Cedar 11 October 1967 (posthumously)

In the Butel municipality in Skopje an elementary school bears his name.

A street in the city of Prilep bears the name Penko Zdravkovski.