The article introduces the work of Slovenians serving as permanent representatives to the United Nations (UN). The main purpose of the article is to emphasise that Slovenian permanent representatives, whether they served as Yugoslav or Slovenian permanent representatives to the UN, had three characteristics. First, they were "figures", meaning they had a solid political or diplomatic career before entering the UN system. Second, Slovenians in New York were committed to the UN and to multilateralism, understood as a precondition for symmetric relations and equality among states. As such, Slovenian permanent representatives in the UN were always taken into consideration when the debate was on human rights, legal issues, sovereign equality and the right of nations to independence and to their own development path. Due to all these characteristics, one can say that Slovenian permanent representatives to the UN significantly influenced the progressive development of the UN.
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