Anton Vratuša

Anton Vratuša (born 21 February 1915, Doljni Slaveči, Murska Sobota, Slovenia) is a former politician and diplomat, who was Prime Minister of Slovenia and Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United Nations.

Vratuša was involved in the Yugoslav People's Liberation War from 1941 onwards, and was interned in Italian concentration camps at Gonars, Treviso, Padova and Rab from February 1942 to September 1943 . After Rab concentration camp was liberated by the Partisans, Vratuša was Deputy Commander of their Rab battalion, made up of camp survivors . He was also head of the Yugoslav Partisans' delegation at CLNAI, the Italian Partisans' underground political entity during the German occupation of Italy in the last years of the Second World War .

After the war, Vratuša pursued an academic and diplomatic career. He was Chief of Staff to Edvard Kardelj (1953-65); the UN Commissioner to South West Africa (now Namibia) (27 October 1966-13 June 1967) while it was under direct UN rule and Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United Nations (1967-1969) .

From April 1978 to July 1980, Vratuša was Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia .

His published works include The Commune in Yugoslavia (1965) and Prospects of the Non-Aligned Movement (1981) .

Between 1985 and 1988 he was the author of various UN publications, especially in the fields of the law of the sea and politics in developing countries .

He is one of the founders of the International Center for Promotion of Enterprises (formerly known as the International Center for Public Enterprises in Developing Countries), where he currently serves as a Honorary President of its Council .

External links

• Survivors of war camp lament Italy's amnesia
• Biography at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (in Slovene)