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After considerable "shuttle diplomacy" negotiations by Henry Kissinger, the conference opened on 21 December 1973 under the auspices of the United Nations Secretary General, with the United States and the USSR as co-chairmen. The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan and Israel were in attendance.
On March 1, 2012, Kissinger was awarded Israel's President's Medal. [346] In October 2013, Kissinger was awarded the Henry A. Grunwald Award for Public Service by Lighthouse International. [347] Kissinger was a member of the Founding Council of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. [348] Kissinger was a member of the ...
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, came for a short shuttling journey between Jerusalem and Damascus in February 1974 (he later wrote in his memoirs that he had decided to mediate due to pressure from the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and ruler of Saudi Arabia, who wished to bring both the Yom Kippur War and the oil crisis to an end).
Kissinger, a Jew who fled Nazi Germany with his family when he was 15, posed a query two weeks before his death about whether Israel can now deal with not just threats from states like Iran, but ...
Nixon’s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, also engaged in so-called “shuttle diplomacy,” engineering an end to the war and ultimately reopening the Suez Canal under President Gerald Ford.
Kissinger escaped Nazi Germany in his youth and came to the US in 1938 before ultimately cementing his legacy in foreign policy in the 1970s. 3. Jerusalem shooting
On 18 January 1974, extensive diplomacy by US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger led to a Disengagement of Forces agreement with the Egyptian government and on 31 May with the Syrian government. The war was the catalyst for the 1973 oil crisis , a Saudi-led oil embargo in conjunction with OPEC against countries trading with Israel.
Kissinger discovered that King Faisal was a worthy companion to Lê Đức Thọ in terms of stubbornness as the king accused the United States of being biased in favor of Israel, going on in a long rant about the balefulness of "Jewish Communists" in Russia and Israel, and despite all of Kissinger's efforts to charm him, refused to end the oil ...