LEFKOSIA – [CNA / Georgia Garantzioti] [File Photo by Bill Petros]
Nikos Agathokleous, a distinguished diplomat and former permanent representative of the Republic of Cyprus to the European Economic Community and the European Union, as well as to the United Nations, died Sept. 9 in New York at the age of 89.
According to a statement issued on behalf of his family, Nikos Agathokleous had a long diplomatic career and made a significant contribution to Cyprus’ path toward European Union membership, having served for an extended period as permanent representative of the Republic of Cyprus to the European Economic Community and subsequently to the European Union in Brussels.
During the 1990s, he served as permanent representative of the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations in New York, where, among other responsibilities, he handled important aspects of the Cyprus issue.
His diplomatic career had begun as early as the 1960s, at Cyprus’ Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
Nikos Agathokleous was born July 14, 1937, in the mountainous village of Galata, in the Solea area of Nicosia district, and was a graduate of the English School in Nicosia.
He pursued graduate studies at Columbia University in New York, where he earned a master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy in 1963 as a scholar of the Carnegie Endowment Program on Diplomacy.
He is survived by his wife, his two children, their families and his granddaughter.
