Janusz Lewandowski | |
Office: | Commissioner of the International Control Commission for Vietnam |
Term Start: | 1966 |
Term End: | 1967 serving with M. A. Rahman and Victor Campbell Moore/Ormond Dier |
Predecessor: | Mieczysław Maneli |
Successor: | Ludwik Klockowski |
Birth Date: | 10 March 1931 |
Birth Place: | Warsaw, Second Polish Republic |
Alma Mater: | Taras Shevchenko University |
Janusz Lewandowski (10 March 1931 – 13 August 2013) was a Polish diplomat, known for arranging the Operation Marigold, a failed secret attempt to reach a compromise solution to the Vietnam War.[1] [2]
In 1955 he graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, then Ukrainian SSR and afterwards held various positions at the Polish foreign ministry.[1]
At the time when he started arranging the Vietnam talks, officially he was a representative at the International Control Commission set up to monitor the ceasefire in the divided Vietnam.[1]
Later he served as an ambassador to a number of countries and retired in 1991.[1]
Lewandowski died of cancer in 2013[1] and was interred at the Powązki Military Cemetery.[3]