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US hold memorial service for Richard Holbrooke
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January 15, 2011, Saturday
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A memorial service for Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan who died of illness last month at the age of 69, began yesterday afternoon at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Addressing the service, US President Barack Obama spoke highly of Holbrooke, saying he was the "leading light of a generation of American diplomats."
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was also present at the service.
As the senior policy-maker on the Obama administration's most pressing foreign policy issue, Holbrooke helped shape the civilian component of the administration's Afghanistan strategy, deploying more than 1,000 diplomats and aid workers to help the Afghans rebuild their state institutions.
He died on December 13 after suffering a tear in his aorta, the body's principal artery.
Addressing the service, US President Barack Obama spoke highly of Holbrooke, saying he was the "leading light of a generation of American diplomats."
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was also present at the service.
As the senior policy-maker on the Obama administration's most pressing foreign policy issue, Holbrooke helped shape the civilian component of the administration's Afghanistan strategy, deploying more than 1,000 diplomats and aid workers to help the Afghans rebuild their state institutions.
He died on December 13 after suffering a tear in his aorta, the body's principal artery.
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