Joel Pekuri
Joel Allan Pekuri (born. 11 July 1927 Suojärvi) is a Finnish diplomat and Ambassador.
Pekuri's parents were forester Gustaf Adolf Pekuri (former Roth) and Olga Gobert. He graduated in 1946 and graduated from the University of Helsinki with a bachelor's degree in 1952, completing her legal bachelor's degree.
Pekuri served as a trainee and assistant to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1953 to 1954 and served as the Delegation Assistant to the Cologne Trade Representation in 1955-1957, as Counselor in New York, 1957-1959, and II as Secretary of State in Beijing, 1959-1962. He was then a deputy secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and 1962-1964, I Secretary of the Embassy in Buenos Aires 1964-1965 and Embassy Counselor in Stockholm 1965-1969.
Pekuri was Ambassador of Finland to Addis Ababa from 1969 to 1971 and also as ambassador to Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lusaka and Kampala, as a negotiating officer for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1972 to 1975, Ambassador to Cairo, at Damascus and Khartoum from 1975 to 1978 and Ambassador to Madrid in 1978-1984 and in The Hague 1989-1991.
Pekuri was also Secretary of Defense in 1963-1964 and Secretary General of the CSCE Consultations, Foreign Ministers' Meeting and Heads of State in 1973 and 1975.[1]