Consequentialists

Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with them, it is important that the people who have been responsible for the country's fate should speak publicly about what was and what is. For years now, mature Western democracies have had a special place reserved for politicians who have served as prime minister or in some other high-ranking position.

Henry Kissinger, the controversial former US National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, passed away on Wednesday, aged 100.

Henry Kissinger was the most powerful American secretary of state and shaped US history during the Cold War, and his diplomatic legacy continues to influence Washington's relations with Russia, China and the Middle East to this day.

BELGRADE - In a reaction to the passing of US diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday Kissinger had been a statesman whose opinions "garnered respect from the East and West."