九乡新闻网街头之王岳松在线:Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher dies at age 85
English.news.cn 2011-03-20 03:01:12
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LOS ANGELES, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who served three presidents died Friday due to complications from kidney and bladder cancer. He was 85.
Christopher died at his home in Los Angeles and was surrounded by his family, the family said in a statement. He is survived by his wife and four children from two marriages.
"He was a resolute pursuer of peace, leading negotiations with regard to the Middle East and the Balkans, including the Dayton Agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia," U.S. President Barak Obama said in a statement issued at midmorning Saturday.
"Warren Christopher was a skillful diplomat, a steadfast public servant, and a faithful American," the president added.
Christopher was secretary of state during Bill Clinton's first term, and served Lyndon Johnson as a deputy attorney general and Jimmy Carter as deputy secretary of state.
Under Carter, he became deputy secretary of state in 1977 and served in that position until January 20, 1981. He led the United States' effort to normalize diplomatic relations with China, worked on the treaties that returned control of the Panama Canal to Panama and was involved in getting 52 American hostages freed from their Iranian captors.
Carter awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Jan. 16, 1981.
Serving in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997, Christopher worked to expand NATO and negotiate peace in Israel.
Funeral plans were pending.