The List of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs
since the Forming of the First Government
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Josip VrhovecVRHOVEC Josip, Josip VRHOVEC, politician. Born in Zagreb on 9 February 1926. Graduated from the Economic Faculty in Belgrade in 1951. Participated in the People's Liberation War from 1941. Member of the People's Liberation Army from 1943. Member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from 1944. After 1945 held various posts in the JNA. Editor-in-chief of the daily "Vjesnik u srijedu" from 1952. Correspondent of the "Vjesnik u srijedu" from the USA from 1963 to 1970. Member of the Executive Committee of the CC of the League of Communists of Croatia from 1970. Secretary of the Executive Committee of the CC of the LCC from December 1971. Member of the Presidency of the CC of the LCY and President of the Commission for Ideological and Theoretical Questions; President of the Council of the Political School "J.B. Tito" from 1974-1978. Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 17 May 1978 to 17 May 1982. Member of the Presidency of the SFRY from 15 May 1984 to 15 May 1989. Published a number of works in the field of international relations and self-management and about the national question.

Married, one daughter.