Hans Tabor
OfficeMinister of Foreign Affairs
Term start1 October 1967
Term end2 February 1968
Prime ministerJens Otto Krag
PredecessorJens Otto Krag
SuccessorPoul Hartling
Birth date25 April 1922
Birth placeCopenhagen, Denmark
Death date19 November 2003 (aged 81)
PartySocial Democratic Party.

Hans Tabor (April 25, 1922 – November 19, 2003) was a Danish diplomat and politician representing the Social Democratic Party.

He was the Danish ambassador to the UN in the 1960s. When the Six-Day War broke out in 1967 he was the head of the United Nations Security Council, and he managed to negotiate a cease fire between Israel and the Arab countries.[1]

Because of his success at the UN he was named Foreign Minister of Denmark by prime minister Jens Otto Krag.[2] He only held office 4 months, because the Social Democrats lost the 1968 election. Tabor then returned to the diplomacy, and was in 1974 briefly ambassador to the UN.[3]

References

  1. ^ Finger, Seymor M. (2002). "Arthur J Goldberg: A Justice Comes to the UN". Inside the World of Diplomacy: The U.S. Foreign Service in a Changing World. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. p. 112. ISBN 0-275-97025-6.
  2. ^ 1967: Denmark[dead link]
  3. ^ "Tidl. udenrigsminister og ambassadør Hans Tabor død" (in Danish). Fyens Stiftstidende. 19 November 2003.