Ilkka Pastinen

Ilkka Olavi Pastinen (17 March 1928 – 12 January 2018) was a Finnish ambassador who also served as Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations.

Pastinen was born in Turku. His parents were warehousekeeper Martti Mikael Pastinen and Ilmi Saga Karlström. He graduated from Åbo Akademi University in 1950. He also studied from 1950 to 1951 in Paris at the Instituts d'études politiques.^{[citation needed]}

Pastine served as Assistant to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1952 to 1955; Assistant to the Embassy of Stockholm, 1955–1957; and the Second Division of the United Nations Permanent Representation to New York, 1957–1959.^{[citation needed]}

He was then Secretary of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1960 to 1962; First Secretary of the Finnish Embassy in Beijing, 1962–1964; Deputy Head of the Department for Foreign Affairs, 1964–1966; and the Embassy of London, 1966–1969.^{[citation needed]}

Pastinen then served as Ambassador to the Permanent Representation to the

At the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, Pastin belonged to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' group called the Junta of the Colonels which included diplomats as Max Jacobson, Aarno Karhilo, Aimo Pajunen, Risto Hyvärinen and Keijo Korhonen. They sought to defend Finland's traditional foreign policy of neutrality against the pressures from the Soviet Union and opposed the goals of the Social Democrats led by Kalevi Sorsa to strengthen their position in the Foreign Ministry.^{[citation needed]}

The Junta of the Colonels

Pastinen married Eva Marja Viitanen (1929–2015),[2] a nursing school teacher in 1950.^[3]

Death

Pastinen died in Helsinki on 12 January 2018, aged 89.^[4]

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