12:31 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLawrence Eagleburger, briefly US secretary of state under President George Bush senior, has died aged 80.<\/p>\n
He also served as Mr Bush’s main adviser on a disintegrating Yugoslavia and played an important role in diplomacy in the first Gulf war.<\/p>\n
Mr Eagleburger gained a reputation for straight talking and disentangling complex foreign policy problems.<\/p>\n
US President Barack Obama said the US had lost a distinguished diplomat and public servant.<\/p>\n
“Through more than four decades of service, first in the army and then as a dedicated foreign service officer and statesman, Lawrence Eagleburger devoted his life to the security of our nation and to strengthening our ties with allies and partners,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Mr Eagleburger died in Charlottesville, Virginia after a short illness, a friend said.<\/p>\n
Born in 1930 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he spent 27 years in the foreign service, occupying senior state department positions in the Nixon and Reagan administrations.<\/p>\n
In 1989 he became Secretary of State James Baker’s deputy, and took over his job in the summer of 1992 when Mr Baker resigned to work for President Bush’s unsuccessful re-election campaign.<\/p>\n
Mr Eagleburger was the first and so far only career foreign service officer to hold the post.<\/p>\n
Under President Jimmy Carter he had been ambassador to Yugoslavia, and he took on a key role as the country descended into conflict in the early 1990s. He was seen by many as pro-Serbian.<\/p>\n
Mr Bush described him as “one of the most capable and respected diplomats our foreign service ever produced, and I will be ever grateful for his wise, no-nonsense counsel during those four years of historic change in our world”.<\/p>\n
He added that during the 1991 first Gulf war Mr Eagleburger was sent to calm Israel when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein began bombarding it with Scud missiles.<\/p>\n
“His performance was nothing short of heroic,” Mr Bush said.<\/p>\n
Current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Mr Eagleburger had been a “strong voice and stalwart champion of America’s interests”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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