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Gromyko

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Gro·my·ko  (gr-mk, gr-), Andrei Andreyevich 1909-1989.
Soviet political leader who served as ambassador to the United States (1943-1946) and the United Nations (1946-1948). He later held the posts of foreign minister (1957-1983) and chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1983-1988).

Gromyko (Russian) [graˈmikə]
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(Biographies / Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich (1909-1989) M, Russian, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: diplomat, POLITICS: head of state) Andrei Andreyevich (anˈdrjej anˈdrjejɪvitʃ). 1909-89, Soviet statesman and diplomat; foreign minister (1957-85); president (1985-88)
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Noun1.Gromyko - Soviet ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations (1909-1989)


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And why did Kissinger and Nixon, having been warned by Brezhnev and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in fairly explicit terms in the summer and fall of 1973 about the danger in the Middle East, fail to see the war coming or take action to prevent it?
Gromyko conveyed the Soviet leadership's proposal, which was formalized by Chernenko on November 17, that simultaneous talks on START, INF, and conventional force reductions be opened.
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