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Danish ex-foreign minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen dies at 80

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By JARI TANNER
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HELSINKI (AP) — Uffe Ellemann-Jensen who was Denmark’s foreign minister for more than 10 years from the early 1980s and was considered one of the Nordic region’s key politicians in the end phase of the Cold War, has died. He was 80. The conservative-liberal Venstre party, which Ellemann-Jensen led for 14 years, said in a brief statement on Sunday that he died overnight “after a long illness.” The cause of death wasn’t immediately given.

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