(Files) Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger speaks during a National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) conference November 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images North America / AFP)
Washington: Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at the age of 100.
Kissinger, who served as the Secretary of State under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and played a pivotal diplomatic role during the Cold War, died at his home in Connecticut.
He was a prominent American diplomat, negotiating the exit of the United States from the Vietnam War. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 and pursued a policy of detente that contributed to the thawing of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
