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Gunnar Jarring (12 October 1907 – 29 May 2002) was a Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 diplomat and Turkologist
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
.

Jarring was born in Brunnby, Skåne County
Skåne County

Sk?ne County is the southernmost Counties of Sweden or l?n, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical Provinces of Sweden Scania....
 (then part of Malmöhus County
Malmöhus County

Malm?hus County was a Counties of Sweden of Sweden until 1997 when it was merged with Kristianstad County to form Sk?ne County.It had been named after Malm?hus, the castle in Malm?, which also was where the County Governors of Sweden originally resided....
), Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
. He earned a Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 from Lund University
Lund University

Lund University , located in Lund in southernmost Sweden, is one of Sweden's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities....
 in 1933 with his dissertation Studien zu einer osttürkischen Lautlehre ("Studies in Eastern-Turkic Sound Science"). After teaching Turkic languages
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
 at the university for the rest of the 1930s, he worked for the Swedish foreign service as attaché
Attaché

Attach? is a French term in diplomacy referring to a person who is assigned to the administrative staff of a higher placed person or another service or agency....
 at their embassy in Ankara
Ankara

Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and the country's List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Turkey after Istanbul....
 in 1940.






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Gunnar Jarring (12 October 1907 – 29 May 2002) was a Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 diplomat and Turkologist
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
.

Jarring was born in Brunnby, Skåne County
Skåne County

Sk?ne County is the southernmost Counties of Sweden or l?n, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical Provinces of Sweden Scania....
 (then part of Malmöhus County
Malmöhus County

Malm?hus County was a Counties of Sweden of Sweden until 1997 when it was merged with Kristianstad County to form Sk?ne County.It had been named after Malm?hus, the castle in Malm?, which also was where the County Governors of Sweden originally resided....
), Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
. He earned a Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 from Lund University
Lund University

Lund University , located in Lund in southernmost Sweden, is one of Sweden's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities....
 in 1933 with his dissertation Studien zu einer osttürkischen Lautlehre ("Studies in Eastern-Turkic Sound Science"). After teaching Turkic languages
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
 at the university for the rest of the 1930s, he worked for the Swedish foreign service as attaché
Attaché

Attach? is a French term in diplomacy referring to a person who is assigned to the administrative staff of a higher placed person or another service or agency....
 at their embassy in Ankara
Ankara

Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and the country's List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Turkey after Istanbul....
 in 1940. He later held diplomatic positions in Teheran, Baghdad
Baghdad

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, and Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa

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, and was appointed Swedish minister to India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 in 1948. After several other diplomatic missions, he was Sweden's Permanent Representative the United Nations
List of Permanent Representatives of Sweden to the United Nations

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 from 1956 to 1958, and sat in the Security Council
United Nations Security Council

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 for the last two of those years. He was ambassador to the United States
List of ambassadors of Sweden to the United States

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 from 1958 to 1964, and to the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 from 1964 to 1973.

After the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 242, Jarring was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as a special envoy for the Middle East
Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
 peace process, the so-called Jarring Mission
Jarring Mission

The Jarring Mission refers to efforts undertaken by Gunnar Jarring to achieve a peaceful settlement of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors following the Six-Day War in 1967....
. Jarring's methods of negotiation were used unsuccessfully until the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.

Gunnar Jarring continued to publish studies on Eastern Turkic languages throughout his diplomatic career and after retirement.

Trivia

  • Jarring is one of the few people to ever be mentioned by name in a Security Council Resolution. He was mentioned in United Nations Security Council Resolution 331
    United Nations Security Council Resolution 331

    United Nations United Nations Security Council resolution 331, adopted on April 20, 1973, requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Council detailing the efforts undertaken by the UN pertaining to the Middle East since June 1967 and decided to meet following the submission of the report to examine the situation in the Middle E...
    .


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