Jože Brilej

Jože Brilej (nom de guerre "Bolko," 1 January 1910 – 8 May 1981) was a diplomat, politician, ambassador, colonel, revolutionary, lawyer, judge, and close associate of Josip Broz Tito.

Brilej was born in Presečno, Dobje pri Planini, Slovenia. He served as the Yugoslav ambassador to London, New York, Mexico, Cairo, Egypt and Yemen, permanent representative of Yugoslavia to the United Nations for life, President of the United Nations Security Council in 1956, member of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, president of the supreme court of Slovenia, editor of Ljudska pravica, and political commissar and colonel in the Partisan National Liberation Army during World War II.

He died on 8 May 1981 in Ljubljana from lung cancer. He is buried at Plečnik's Žale cemetery in Ljubljana opposite his lifelong friend, partisan comrade and diplomat Aleš Bebler.

Brilej Street (Slovene: Brilejeva ulica) in Ljubljana (Dravlje) is named after him.

On 9 August 1987 a commemorative government plaque was unveiled on the house where he was born in Presečno, Dobje pri Planini.

Awards and decorations

Some of the awards and decorations of Jože Brilej include:

Medals and Decorations Class Country Notes
Order of the Aztec Eagle (Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca) Sash ("Banda") Mexico Highest honour of Mexico to a foreigner
Order of the Phoenix (Τάγμα του Φοίνικος) Grand Cross Greece Highest honour of Greece to a foreigner
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) 1st Class, Knight of the Grand Cross Italy Highest ranking honor of the Republic of Italy
Order of the Republic Grand Cordon, First Class Egypt Egyptian order of knighthood
Medals and Decorations Class Country Notes
Order of the Yugoslav Flag Sash, First Class with gold wreath Yugoslavia awarded to ambassadors for diplomatic missions
Order of Merits for the People First and Second class Yugoslavia
Order of the Republic 1st class with gold wreath Yugoslavia
Order of National Liberation (Orden narodnog oslobođenja) Yugoslavia
Commemorative Medal of the Partisans 1941 Yugoslavia Commemorative
Order of the Partisan Star Yugoslavia

External links

Slovene National Liberation Committee

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