Ion Stoian was a Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n communist politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania during the rule of Nicolae Ceauşescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...

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Life and political career

Stoian was born in Telega, Romania. He was a member of Communist Party Bureau of Griviţa

Grivita

Griviţa is an area of Bucharest, Romania, centered on the Griviţa Railway Yards , which were and still are an important landmark within the manufacturing landscape of the city...

 district of Bucharest. He served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and International economic cooperation from April 7, 1979 until November 22, 1985. In the wake of Romanian Revolution of 1989

Romanian Revolution of 1989

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a series of riots and clashes in December 1989. These were part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several Warsaw Pact countries...

, Stoian served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 2 until December 22, 1989 when the Ceauşescu regime was overthrown.

Stoian was arrested and sentenced to 14 years. He was pardoned by the President Ion Iliescu

Ion Iliescu

Ion Iliescu served as President of Romania from 1990 until 1996, and from 2000 until 2004. From 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 until his retirement in 2008, Iliescu was a Senator for the Social Democratic Party , whose honorary president he remains....

and released in March 1994.