Ion Mitilineu was a Romania

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n diplomat

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 who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania in 1926-1927.

Life and career

Mitilineu was appointed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania on March 30, 1926, when Alexandru Averescu

Alexandru Averescu

Alexandru Averescu was a Romanian marshal and populist politician. A Romanian Armed Forces Commander during World War I, he served as Prime Minister of three separate cabinets . He first rose to prominence during the peasant's revolt of 1907, which he helped repress in violence...

 took the office of Prime Minister of Romania

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. Mitilineu was a part of Romanian diplomatic advance in efforts to reestablish good relations with European states and sign military cooperation agreements with neighbors. Prime Minister Averescu had already met with the Italian leader Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

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 in 1924 and was interested in close cooperation with Italy

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. During Mitilineu's term in office, Romanian-Italian relations significantly improved and in September 1926, friendship treaty between two states was signed. After that Romania also signed the Locarno Pact.

Mitilineu also developed good relations Czechoslovakia

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 and Yugoslavia

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 through the Little Entente

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 alliance against potential irredentist threats from Hungary

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. He is considered one of the most successful foreign ministers of Romania. In domestic politics, he also tried to unify the Peasant's Party

Peasants' Party (Romania)

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to create an anti-Liberal bloc in Romania.

Mitilineu died in 1946.