Gunnar Jarring (12 October 1907-29 May 2002) was a Swedish turkologist and diplomat. October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Turkic languages are a group of related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ... This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ...

Jarring studied at Lund University and earned his PhD in 1933 with his dissertation Studien zu einer osttürkischen Lautlehre. After teaching Turkic languages at the university for the rest of the 1930s, he was employed in Swedish foreign service as attaché at the embassy in Ankara in 1940. He later held diplomatic positions in Teheran, Baghdad and Addis Abeba and was appointed Swedish minister to India 1948. After several other diplomatic missions, he was made ambassador to the UN 1956-1958 and sat in the UN Security Council for the last two of those years. He was ambassador to the USA 1958-1964, and to the Soviet Union 1964-1967. After the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the adoption of Resolution 242, Jarring was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as a special envoy for the Middle East peace process. Jarring's methods of negotiation were used unsuccessfully until the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Lund University Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a university in Lund in southernmost Sweden. ... PhD usually refers to the academic title Doctor of Philosophy PhD can also refer to the manga Phantasy Degree This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Ankara from the Atakule Tower, looking N-NE Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the countrys second largest city after Ä°stanbul. ... Tehran (also spelled Teheran) (تهران in Persian), population 8,000,000 (metropolitan: 10,000,000), is the capital of Iran and one of the major world cities. ... Wikinews has news related to this article: Several hundred killed after stampede in Baghdad A street map of Baghdad Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad For other meanings see Baghdad (disambiguation) Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and the Baghdad Province. ... Addis Ababa (Amharic new flower) is the capital of Ethiopia. ... This article is about the United Nations, for other uses of UN see UN (disambiguation) Official languages English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic Secretary-General Kofi Annan (since 1997) Established October 24, 1945 Member states 191 Headquarters New York City, NY, USA Official site http://www. ... A session of the Security Council in progress The United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations. ...

Gunnar Jarring continued to publish studies on Eastern Turkic languages throughout his diplomatic career and after retirement. The Turkic languages are a group of related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ...