Later Life and Death
In 1993, he was awarded the United States Military Academy's Sylvanus Thayer Award.
In 1995, Cyrus Vance again acted as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and signed the interim accord as witness in the negotiations between the Republic of Macedonia and Greece.
Vance was a member of the Trilateral Commission.
He died aged 84 after a long battle of pneumonia in New York. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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