Jimmy Carter, former U.S. president and peace champion, dies at 100

Carter was the 39th president of the United States and belonged to the Democratic Party.

In 2002, the politician received the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee stated that it was awarded to Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

Jimmy Carter served as the President of the USA from 1977 to 1981. During his presidency, he signed treaties on nuclear arms reduction and contributed to the signing of the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel at Camp David.

He led an international campaign to defend human rights, formulating the Carter Doctrine, which denied the United States assistance to countries violating these rights.

After withdrawing from active political life, he did not stop his social and charitable activities. He founded the Carter Center in Atlanta and, using his authority as a former American president, began to support processes aimed at strengthening democracy, reducing tensions, and eliminating the threats of local conflicts.

As an independent mediator, he facilitated the peaceful restoration of democracy in Haiti in 1994 and helped ease tensions in US-North Korea relations.

At the request of Radovan Karadžić, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, he undertook a mediation mission in the Yugoslav conflict. He also carried out UN missions in the Middle East and was involved in mediation during the Gulf War.

Carter was born in 1924 in Plains, Georgia, into a farming family. He was a graduate of Southwestern University and the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Until 1953, when he resigned from the navy, he was an associate of Admiral H.G. Rickover for the program to use atomic energy for submarine propulsion. Later, he ran a farm, owned warehouses and stores, and simultaneously engaged in political life.

Jimmy Carter was the longest-living president in the history of the USA and the first to reach 100 years old.

Since 1966, he fought for the governorship of Georgia, and after five years, he assumed the position. During the Democratic Party Convention in 1976, he was chosen as its candidate in the presidential elections. A few months later, he became the 39th president of the United States, defeating the incumbent president, Gerald Ford.

In November 1980, Jimmy Carter lost the bid for a second term to Ronald Reagan.

Source: PAP/WP Wiadomości