PHNOM PENH – Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas has passed away at the age of 101. Dumas was co-president of the Paris Peace Accords for Cambodia in 1991. 

The French Embassy to Cambodia, through a condolences message on Facebook, said he died on July 3. The embassy sent its condolences to his family and friends. 

Senate President and former Prime Minister Hun Sen said at a meeting with French Ambassador Jacques Pellet that Dumas’s death was a loss of one of Cambodia’s heroes.

The former prime minister, paying his deepest condolences, also showed his gratitude for Dumas’s contribution to negotiating and organizing the Paris Peace Agreement. 

Dumas was foreign minister in the administration of former president Francois Mitterrand from 1988 to 1993. He played an important role in the accords.  

After the first conference from July 30 to August 30 in 1989, the Paris Accords continued the second conference from Oct. 21 to 23 in 1991 with Dumas and Indonesian former foreign minister Ali Alatas as co-presidents.  

Dumas was also a member of the French parliament, minister for European affairs, spokesman for the government, minister of international relations, and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission.

He was president of the French Parliament from 1995 to 2000.