George Shultz, who has held important government positions such as serving as Secretary of State under the Reagan administration in the United States in the 1980s, and is known for his efforts to end the Cold War in the east and west and for the abolition of nuclear weapons, said on the 6th. Died.
I was 100 years old.
This was announced on the 7th by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in the United States, where Mr. Schultz was a research fellow.
Mr. Schultz served as Secretary of Labor and Finance under the Nixon administration, and as Secretary of State under the Reagan administration, which had been in the Cold War with the former Soviet Union, helped end the Cold War by engaging in negotiations on nuclear disarmament.
After retiring, he continued his energetic activities toward the abolition of nuclear weapons, supported the policy at the meeting with President Obama at that time aiming for a "world without nuclear weapons", and ratified the nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia. I urged the Republican Party.
Mr. Schultz also worked to build relations with Asian countries, and the Hoover Institution said in a statement, "Mr. Schultz will play an important role as Secretary of State in strengthening relations with countries in the Asia-Pacific region such as China and Japan. I've done it. "
In a contribution to the Washington Post last December, Schultz wrote, "If you have trust in your family, classrooms, government and military, good things happen. If you don't have trust, good things happen. It wasn't. Other than that, it's a mess. ”He explained the importance of a relationship of trust in negotiations between governments.