    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 3 (Monday, January 24, 1994)]
    [Page 86]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Statement by the Press Secretary on the Death of Foreign Minister Johan
    Jurgen Holst of Norway

    January 14, 1994

        The President was saddened to learn yesterday of the death of
    Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jurgen Holst. Throughout his long and
    distinguished career, Minister Holst was one of the world's leading
    experts and wisest thinkers on international security issues. As his
    nation's defense minister, head of a leading research institute, and
    foreign minister, he was in the forefront of those designing and
    implementing international security policies during the cold war and
    adapting those policies to the post-cold-war period.
        Americans remember him best for his leading role in the Israeli-PLO
    negotiations that led to the breakthrough in the Middle East peace
    process last September. The President was proud to have the opportunity
    to honor Minister Holst at the White House signing ceremony on September
    13.
        The White House expresses its deepest sympathies to the family and
    friends of this great statesman.

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