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{{Short description|Yugoslav Macedonian politician (1920– 2011)}}
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| name                = Lazar Mojsov
| image               = Lazar Mojsov (1977 UN photo).jpg
| caption             = Mojsov, {{circa|1977}}
| pre-name            =
| post-name           =
| office              = 34th [[President of the United Nations General Assembly]]
| term_start          = 1977
| term_end            = 1978
| predecessor         = [[Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe]]
| successor           = [[Indalecio Liévano]]
| office1             = [[President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia]]
| primeminister1      = [[Branko Mikulić]]
| term_start1         = 15 May 1987
| term_end1           = 15 May 1988
| predecessor1        = [[Sinan Hasani]]
| successor1          = [[Raif Dizdarević]]
| office3             = 15th [[Vice President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia]]
| president3          = Sinan Hasani
| term_start3         = 15 May 1986
| term_end3           = 15 May 1987
| predecessor3        = Sinan Hasani
| successor3          = [[Hamdija Pozderac]]
| office4             = [[Leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia|President]] of the [[Presidency of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia|Presidency]] of the [[Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia|LCY Central Committee]]
| term_start4         = 20 October 1980
| term_end4           = 20 October 1981
| predecessor4        = [[Stevan Doronjski]]
| successor4          = [[Dušan Dragosavac]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1920|12|19|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Negotino]], [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2011|08|25|1920|12|19|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Belgrade]], [[Serbia]]
| party               = [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]] (SKJ)
| alma_mater          = [[University of Belgrade]]
| spouse              =
| children            = [[Svetlana Mojsov]]
| native_name_lang    = mk
| native_name         = {{nobold|Лазар Мојсов}}
}}
'''Lazar Mojsov''' ({{langx|mk|Лазар Мојсов}}; 19 December 1920 – 25 August 2011) was a [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonian]] journalist, [[communism|communist]] politician and diplomat from [[SFR Yugoslavia]].

==Biography==
Mojsov was born on 19 December 1920 in [[Negotino]], [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]]. Mojsov received his doctoral degree from the [[University of Belgrade]]'s [[University of Belgrade Faculty of Law|Law School]] and joined the [[Communist Party of Yugoslavia]].<ref name="db">{{cite book |author1=Dimitar Bechev |title=Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810862951 |page=154}}</ref> He fought for the [[Yugoslav Partisans|anti-fascist partisans]] in [[World War II]]. During the 1940s, he participated as the public prosecutor in the [[show trial]]s against many real or alleged collaborators, and people with pro-Bulgarian views, who were sentenced to death for treason, in [[Socialist Republic of Macedonia]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Dimitris Livanios |title=The Macedonian Question: Britain and the Southern Balkans 1939-1949 |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199237685 |page=202}}</ref> He was the attorney general of SR Macedonia from 1948 to 1951.<ref name="UN">{{cite web |title=Lazar Mojsov (Yugoslavia) |url=https://www.un.org/en/ga/president/bios/bio32.shtml |website=un.org |publisher=United Nations |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128041356/https://www.un.org/en/ga/president/bios/bio32.shtml |archive-date=28 November 2010}}</ref> During the next two decades, he served as a member of the parliaments of [[SFR Yugoslavia]] and SR Macedonia and as editor-chief of ''[[Nova Makedonija]]'' and ''Borba''.<ref name="UN" /><ref name="db" /> Meanwhile, he began a diplomatic career, serving as Yugoslav ambassador to the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Mongolian People's Republic|Mongolia]] from 1958 to 1961 and as ambassador to [[Austria]] from 1967 to 1969. From 1969 to 1974, he served as Yugoslav ambassador to the [[United Nations]], [[Guyana]] and [[Jamaica]].<ref name="UN" /><ref name="mk">{{cite book |editor=Blaže Ristovski |title=Macedonian Encyclopedia |date=2009 |publisher=Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts |page=981}}</ref>

From 1974 to 1982, Mojsov was deputy foreign minister of Yugoslavia, and, from 1977 to 1978, he was the president of the [[United Nations General Assembly]].<ref name="UN" /> From 1980 to 1981, he served as Chairman of the Presidium of the [[Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia]], and from May 1982 to May 1984, he was the foreign minister.<ref name="gov">{{cite web |title=Lazar Mojsov |url=https://jorm.gov.mk/en/former-state-public-prosecutors/lazar-mojsov/ |website=jorm.gov |publisher=Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of North Macedonia}}</ref> From 1984 to 1989, he was a member of the collective [[presidency of Yugoslavia]] and was its [[President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia|chairman]] from 15 May 1987 to 15 May 1988.<ref name="gov" /><ref>{{cite book |title=The Revolutions of 1989: A Handbook |date=2015 |editor1=Arnold Suppan |editor2=Michael Gehler |editor3=Wolfgang Mueller |publisher=Austrian Academy of Sciences Press |isbn=9783700176381 |page=164}}</ref> After the [[1989 Kosovo miners' strike]], he participated in the preparation of the arrest of Kosovo Albanian politician [[Azem Vllasi]] on 2 March by fabricating a story that he had a document where Vllasi and other Kosovo Albanian leaders had a three-phase plan, starting with the strike and ending with an insurrection, while also blaming the Albanian secret service in Tirana. In 1990, he became a member of the Serbian political party [[League of Communists – Movement for Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Viktor Meier |title=Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise |date=2005 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781134665112 |pages=87, 153}}</ref> Mojsov also wrote on the subjects of foreign policy and the [[Macedonian Question]]. Mojsov died in August 2011, aged 90, in [[Belgrade]]. He was buried at [[Belgrade New Cemetery]]'s Alley of Distinguished Citizens.<ref>{{cite web | title = Sahranjen Lazar Mojsov | trans-title = Lazar Mojsov buried |language = Serbian | url = https://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.69.html:342801-Sahranjen-Lazar-Mojsov | work = [[Večernje novosti]] | date = 25 August 2011 | accessdate = 18 May 2023 | archive-date = 18 May 2023 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20230518191857/https://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.69.html:342801-Sahranjen-Lazar-Mojsov }}</ref><ref name="mk" /> His daughter [[Svetlana Mojsov]] is a scientist.<ref>{{cite web |title=Macedonian scientist Svetlana Mojsov is among the recipients of the Asian Tang Prize for biopharmacy |url=https://www.slobodenpecat.mk/en/makedonskata-nauchnichka-svetlana-mojsov-megju-nagradenite-so-aziskata-nagrada-tang-za-biofarmacija/ |website=Sloboden Pecat |date=2024}}</ref>

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