Lugar dies, US senator who helped free Kosovo

Lugar was one of the most powerful voices about American foreign policy.

He had supported, besides Kosovo, efforts to end the apartheid in South Africa, attempts to bring down the dictator Filipinos, Ferdinand Marcos, and efforts to secure the weapons of mass destruction of the former Soviet Union.

Lugar has died after complications from polynalythropia deminitating chronic inflammatory, a neurologic disorder, has revealed the Lugar Centre, a nonprofit organisation from Washington, focused on nuclear disarmament, food safety and other issues that the senator had worked on at Congress in the United States.

Along with John McCain, Lugar was in the republican minority that supported US President Bill Clinton in his NATO campaign to intervene against Serbia to save the people of Kosovo in the spring of 1999.