Richard Holbrooke, left, with General Wesley Clark in Sarajevo for peace talks in Bosnia in 1995. Mr. Holbrooke negotiated a peace deal for the former Yugoslavia that year. He died this week at age 69
ANTHONY DWORKIN: "He made enemies but he also got things done and in that sense he was a very effective negotiator."
Mr. Holbrooke began as a foreign service officer in Vietnam in nineteen sixty-two. He may be remembered most for negotiating the peace deals that ended the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Those deals included the nineteen ninety-five peace agreement for Bosnia. The talks took place at an Air Force base near the American city of Dayton, Ohio.
Haris Silajdzic, a member of Bosnia's three-member presidency, took part in those talks and praised Richard Holbrooke's diplomatic skill.
HARIS SILAJDZIC: "The world has lost a very able diplomat. We need good people all over the world to prevent wars and to make peace. He was one of the best."
Mr. Holbrooke's deputy, Frank Ruggiero, is now acting in his place.
And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.
Contributing: Lisa Bryant, Ayaz Gul, Marcus Harton, Ravi Khanna, Kent Klein, Dan Robinson and Mike O’Sullivan
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