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Bengt Arne Odhner (10August 1918 – 20November 1990), was a Swedish diplomat. Odhner was the son of Professor Nils Hjalmar Odhner and Signhild (née Hagström). He earned a Juris Doctor degree in Genoa in 1944 and served in Genoa and Milan from 1938 to 1945 before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1945. Odhner served as an attaché in Tehran and Baghdad from 1947 to 1950 and was the second secretary at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1950 to 1955. He was then secretary of legation at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and held the same position in Washington, D.C. from 1955 to 1959. He was counsellor in Warsaw from 1959 to 1961 and director at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (head of international aid cases) from 1962 to 1964. He was ambassador in Baghdad from 1964 to 1969, side-accredited in Kuwait City 1965-1969, (Rawalpindi), Islamabad from 1969 to 1973 and Tehran with side-accreditation in Kabul from 1973 to 1978. After that he was trade policy negotiator at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1982 and ambassador in Tunis from 1983 to 1984. Odhner was the secretary of the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1950 to 1952, leader of Sweden General Export Association's commerce and industry delegation to East Africa in 1963, secretary, delegate or chairman of trade negotiations with various nations in 1953 and led special missions to such countries as China, North Yemen, Algeria and Indonesia.〔 Odhner died in 1990 and was buried at Danderyd cemetery. ==Awards== * Commander of the Order of Homayoun * Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau〔 * Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bengt Odhner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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