7 hours agoFrank Wisner, US diplomat who worked for Kosovo independence, dies
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(a year ago)Frank G. Wisner, the US diplomat who worked as ambassador to four countries and was the US emissary in the Kosovo status talks, died on February 24th in Mil Neck, New York. He was 86 years old. Cause of death were complications from lung cancer, said his son David Wisner, today The Washington [...]
Frank G. Wisner, the US diplomat who worked as ambassador to four countries and was the US emissary in the Kosovo status talks, died on February 24th in Mil Neck, New York.
He was 86 years old.
Cause of death were complications from lung cancer, said his son David Wisner, reports today The Washington Post, the Paparaci broadcast.
The son of a decorated spy who helped establish the CIA, Wisner became State Department official in 1961 and worked during the Vietnam War, joining a diplomatic circle that grew up in office including his friends Richard Holbrooke, who helped negotiate the war to end in Bosnia, and Leslie Gelb, who became a journalist and chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Unlike them, Wisner was rarely in the spotlight.
For several hours in January 1993, on the day of Clinton's first inauguration, he served as the secretary of State's task manager.
