Estanislao de Grandes
{{Short description|Spanish diplomat (1947–2022)}}
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{{Family name hatnote|de Grandes|Pascual|lang=Spanish}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1947|06|06}}
| birth_place = Guadalajara, Spain
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|02|25|1947|06|06}}
| death_place = Madrid, Spain
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| nationality = Spanish
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| occupation = Diplomat
| years_active = 1997-2017
| title = Ambassador of Spain in Slovakia (1997-2002)
Permanent representative of Spain to the Council of Europe (2002-2006)
Ambassador of Spain in Romania (2009-2013)
Ambassador of Spain in Moldova (2009-2013)
Ambassador of Spain in Argentina (2013-2017)
| awards = Grand Officer of the Order of the White Double Cross
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Estanislao de Grandes Pascual (6 June 1947 – 25 February 2022) was a Spanish diplomat.
Career
De Grandes was born in Guadalajara, Spain, on 6 June 1947{{Cite news|url=https://www.eldebate.com/obituarios/20220330/estanislao-grandes.html|work=El Debate|title=Más que un embajador|date=30 March 2022|first=Carmen|last=de Carlos}} and joined the Diplomatic Corps in 1978.{{cite web|url=https://thediplomatinspain.com/2022/02/fallece-estanislao-de-grandes-ex-embajador-en-argentina-rumania-y-eslovaquia/|title=Fallece Estanislao de Grandes, ex embajador en Argentina, Rumanía y Eslovaquia|website=The Diplomat in Spain|date=27 February 2022}}
In 1996, while in Chargé d'Affairs at the Spanish embassy in Peru, he was one of the 400 hostages during the Japanese embassy hostage crisis, being released two days later. He was Ambassador of Spain to Slovakia between 1997 and 2002, to Romania and Moldova between 2009 and 2013, and Permanent Representative of Spain to the Council of Europe between 2002 and 2006. His last destiny was as ambassador to Argentina, an office he held between 2013 and 2017.
De Grandes died from COVID-19 in Madrid on 25 February 2022, at the age of 74.
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Category:20th-century Spanish diplomats
Category:21st-century Spanish diplomats
Category:People from Guadalajara, Spain
Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Argentina
Category:Permanent representatives of Spain to the Council of Europe
Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
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