'He had the thinnest skin of any public figure I ever knew,' Ford told an interviewer shortly before his death in 2006.Ĭurrent U.S. Ford called him a 'super secretary of state' but also noted his prickliness and self-assurance, saying, 'Henry in his mind never made a mistake.' With his distinctive German-accented voice, Kissinger was never shy to offer his opinion. He should have apologized to the people of Bangladesh for what he has done.' 'That is very sad for such a smart man to do such inhumane things. but unfortunately, in 1971, he was dead against the people of the then-East Pakistan,' Momen told WION news.
'Henry Kissinger has been an iconic diplomat. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Kissinger as a 'wise and farsighted statesman' while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his meetings with Kissinger provided 'a master class in statesmanship.'īangladeshi Foreign Minister Abdul Momen, however, recalled Kissinger's role in the bloody 1971 war between West and East Pakistan that led eventually to East Pakistan becoming an independent Bangladesh.
As tributes poured in from around the world, Beijing called him a 'good old friend of the Chinese people' who made historic contributions to normalizing relations between the two countries.
