Sunday, March 20, 2011

U.S.: Ex-Foreign Ministers Warren Christopher died

With 68 years Warren Christopher came to his main office: The lawyer was U.S. secretary of state under Democratic President Bill Clinton and played an important role in peace negotiations in the Middle East and Bosnia. The diplomat died on Friday evening. Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher has died at the age of 85. From 1993 to 1997 was the diplomat at the office of then U.S. President Bill Clinton. In his tenure, he played an important role in the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians that led to the Oslo peace agreement.


The contract, which provided for the recognition of Israel in return for the establishment of the Palestinian Authority was signed in September 1993 in the presence of Christopher's by the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Washington. 1995, Christopher won a Mitarchitekt the successful peace negotiations after the Bosnian war a great success.

At Dayton, he played together with his deputy, Richard Holbrooke, an important role. Other major issues of his term in 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the U.S. military intervention in Haiti in support of President Bertrand Aristide. Christopher had already held in the administration of President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 the post of vice-foreign minister.

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