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14 January 2011
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US and world leaders are gathering to honour Richard Holbrooke, the veteran US diplomat who died last month at 69.
Mr Holbrooke, whose diplomatic service reached back to the Vietnam war era, was President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mourners in Washington are expected to include Mr Obama, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Mr Holbrooke was credited in part with ending war in the Balkans in the 1990s.
Foreign policy 'giant' The ceremony is to take place on Friday afternoon at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Mr Obama, who has remembered Mr Holbrooke as "true giant of American foreign policy", is expected to address the memorial service, as is Mrs Clinton.
In a career alternating between financial executive and diplomat, Mr Holbrooke was perhaps best known as the architect of the 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended three years of war in Bosnia.
After Mr Obama took office in 2009, Mr Holbrooke's skills and temperament were tested in his efforts to get Kabul and Islamabad effectively to fight the region's resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda militant groups.
Mr Holbrooke was meeting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the US state department in December when he collapsed.
He was rushed to the US capital's George Washington University Hospital, where he later died.
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Mr Holbrooke, whose diplomatic service reached back to the Vietnam war era, was President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mourners in Washington are expected to include Mr Obama, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Mr Holbrooke was credited in part with ending war in the Balkans in the 1990s.
Foreign policy 'giant' The ceremony is to take place on Friday afternoon at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Mr Obama, who has remembered Mr Holbrooke as "true giant of American foreign policy", is expected to address the memorial service, as is Mrs Clinton.
In a career alternating between financial executive and diplomat, Mr Holbrooke was perhaps best known as the architect of the 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended three years of war in Bosnia.
After Mr Obama took office in 2009, Mr Holbrooke's skills and temperament were tested in his efforts to get Kabul and Islamabad effectively to fight the region's resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda militant groups.
Mr Holbrooke was meeting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the US state department in December when he collapsed.
He was rushed to the US capital's George Washington University Hospital, where he later died.
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