“America and the world have lost an extraordinary leader and statesman today,” the American president wrote Joe Biden in a statement about the death Sunday of Jimmy Carter, one of his predecessors. Biden praises Carter’s peace efforts. “He saved, helped and changed the lives of people all over the world.” He also announced that Carter will receive a state funeral in Washington.
Incoming president Donald Trump writes on his social media platform Truth Social that all Americans owe Carter a debt of gratitude. “The challenges Jimmy faced as president came at a pivotal time for our country and he did everything in his power to improve the lives of all Americans.”
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According to former president Barack Obama “Carter taught us all what it means to live a life of grace, dignity, justice and service.”
Jimmy Carter died on Sunday at the age of 100. He was president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 on behalf of the Democratic party. He then lost the presidency to Ronald Reagan and traveled the world as a peace activist after leaving the White House.
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The Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof calls Carter a tireless but amiable fighter for peace and human rights. “Friendly and tenacious, he will live on in the memories of many,” Schoof writes on X.
King Willem-Alexander believes that the international community owes Carter a “great debt of gratitude.” “Driven by a rock-solid belief in the positive power of people, he was committed to peace and social justice,” he writes, partly on behalf of his wife Queen Máxima, in a message on social media.
The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al Sisi reflects on the role Carter played as president in ending the war between Egypt and Israel and on his later humanitarian work. According to Al Sisi, he thus set a “lofty standard of love, peace and brotherhood.”
According to Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization, Carter saved “countless lives.” The former president, with the Carter Center he founded, was committed to combating tropical diseases, among other things.