Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov (also Yuliy Vorontsov; Russian: Ю́лий Миха́йлович Воронцо́в) (October 7, 1929, Leningrad – December 12, 2007, Moscow) was a Russian diplomat, President of International Centre of the Roerichs (Moscow). In the mid 1970s he was Chargé d'Affaires at the Soviet embassy in Washington, under Ambassador Dobrynin. He served as the Soviet Union's ambassador to Afghanistan in the late 1980s. He then served as the last Soviet ambassador to United Nations between 1990 and 1991. He then served as the first Russian ambassador to United Nations from 1991 to 1994. After this he served as the Russian ambassador to the United States from 1994 to 1998.
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