He died at 77 years of age after a short illness, reports the british media.
Ashdown was the first leader of the liberal democrats when the party was formed through a merger in 1988 and sat on the entry in the eleven years before he resigned.
the leader was Paddy Ashdown in 2002 to the international community’s coordinator in the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina and continued the work that Carl Bildt began between 1995 and 1997. Ashdown testified, inter alia, in the trial against the former serbledaren Slobodan Milosevic.
the liberal democrats, says in a statement that Paddy Ashdown ”made an immeasurable contribution to promoting ” a thing” and notes that he will be hugely missed.
