Russian diplomat Vitaly Churkin who has been Russian ambassador to the United Nations for the last ten years suddenly died right in his office in New York. He suffered from cardiac arrest.
February 21 is his birthday, he would have been 65 years old.
Churkin started his career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1974, managed to work in Canada, Belgium and Chile for more than 40 years. He occupied the post of Deputy Foreign Minister from 1992 to 1994.
Diplomats participating in UN meeting held a moment of silence in remembrance of Vitaly Churkin. The ambassador had very high respect in political circles and was called “a diplomatic giant”. Distinguished officials and his colleagues from abroad extend their condolences about the diplomat’s timeless death. "This is a shock inside the UN system," UN Senior Correspondent Richard Roth marked in his CNN interview last night.
Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the family members of the deceased. “The President was deeply grieved to know about the death of Vitaly Churkin”, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
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