{"id":94137,"date":"2017-06-19T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=94137"},"modified":"2017-06-18T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T15:26:43","slug":"un-chief-praises-vision-tenacity-of-the-late-helmut-khol-chancellor-who-reunited-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/06\/un-chief-praises-vision-tenacity-of-the-late-helmut-khol-chancellor-who-reunited-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Chief Praises ‘Vision, Tenacity’ of the Late Helmut Khol, Chancellor Who Reunited Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany, addresses a special session of the United Nations General Assembly in June 1997. UN Photo\/Eskinder Debebe<\/p><\/div>\n

16 Jun 2017<\/em> \u2013 United Nations Secretary-General<\/a> Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has lauded the vision and tenacity of the former Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, who died today at the age of 87.<\/p>\n

A statement issued by the Secretary-General’s Spokesman, St\u00e9phane Dujarric, said Mr. Guterres learned with great sadness<\/a> of Mr. Kohl’s passing.<\/p>\n

Noting that Mr. Kohl was \u201cGermany’s longest-serving chancellor,\u201d the statement said that he \u201cplayed an instrumental role in the peaceful reunification of his country, within a year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and helped set a course for the historic process of Europe’s political and economic integration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cToday’s Europe is a product of his vision and his tenacity, in the face of enormous obstacles,\u201d said the statement, which extended the UN Secretary-General’s condolences to Mr. Kohl’s family and to the Government and people of Germany.<\/p>\n

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Helmut Kohl (left) meets with former UN Secetary-General Kofi Annan. UN Photo\/Evan Schneider<\/p><\/div>\n

Go to Original \u2013 un.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

16 Jun 2017 \u2013 United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has lauded the vision and tenacity of the former Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, who died today at the age of 87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}