Nguyen Co Thach.(Vietnamese foreign minister)(Brief Article)(Obituary)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 25, 1998 | Copyright information

CHARM was a talent that Nguyen Co Thach deployed with great skill. Here he was at Geneva at one of those United Nations conferences that get nowhere but seem vital at the time. Reporters clustered around him like children after sweets. The foreign minister of Vietnam was rated a better catch than any number of western spokesmen. Mr Thach sorted them out and sent each away happy, with a few "exclusive" comments on their tape recorders, in English or French according to their needs. How reasonable these Vietnamese are.

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