Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who served as Secretary of Energy and the United States’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations under President Bill Clinton, has died at the age of 75. Reported by this TV channel CNN.
The politician also held contacts with Russia on the issue of prisoners. By TV channel MSNBCHe had visited Moscow in the past to discuss the release of US citizens from Russian prisons. In August 2023, several Democratic senators proposed that Richardson be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The diplomat began his political career as an aide to former Massachusetts Representative Frank Bradford Morse, and later became a member of the US State Department and Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1970s.
He was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1983, representing New Mexico’s third district. Richardson later served as the US Ambassador to the UN and Secretary of Energy before being elected governor of New Mexico in 2002. He served two terms before leaving office in 2011.
previously in the USA remembered Biden’s prediction of his own death.
Source: Gazeta
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