Michalis Papakonstantinou was a Greek

Greece

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 politician

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 and author

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. He studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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. Papakonstantinou served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs

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 from August 7, 1992, until October 13, 1993, as a member of the New Democracy Party

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He regularly wrote as a columnist

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 in newspapers in both Athens

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 and Thessaloniki

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. He also contributed to Greek and foreign magazines as a writer

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Papakonstantinou was born in Kozani

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, Greece, in 1919. He died on January 17, 2010, at the age of 91.