Kissinger died Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm Kissinger Associates said in a statement. After his career in government, H.Kissinger founded this profitable political consulting firm.
The statement said Kissinger’s family would hold a private funeral, followed by a service in New York, where Kissinger grew up.
The statement did not specify the cause of death. H.Kissinger remained active even at the age of 100 years – in July he went to China to meet with President Xi Jinping.
Kissinger was born Heinz Alfred Kissinger in Germany in 1923 and changed his name to Henry when his family fled Nazi Germany and settled in the United States.
He became a US citizen in 1943. and participated in World War II.
During the 1960s, Kissinger was a consultant to the National Security Council, the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the State Department.
He worked as the US Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977.
Kissinger was synonymous with US foreign policy in the 1970s. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to orchestrate the end of US military involvement in the Vietnam War, and is credited with secret diplomacy that helped President Richard Nixon open communist China to the United States and the West. in 1972 R. Nixon visited this country.
But he was also criticized by many for bombing Cambodia during the Vietnam War, which led to the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, and for supporting a coup against the democratic government of Chile.
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2024-08-26 14:36:10