Madeleine Albright, a US politician and diplomat, has died at the age of 84 from cancer. The news was confirmed by the family with a quick message on Albright’s social channels.
Madeleine Albright was born in Prague in 1937 (then named Marie Jana Korbelová) and came to the United States with her family in 1948, and for being the first woman to hold that position. The United States Secretary of State performs duties comparable to that of a secretary of state and is one of the most important roles in the US government (at this time the US Secretary of State is Antony Blinken).
From 1993 to 1997, during Clinton’s first term, she was the United States’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Below is a statement from the family of @madeleine: pic.twitter.com/C7Xt0EN5c9
Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) March 23, 2022
Albright was a key figure in the Clinton administration: she was a strong supporter of the need for NATO expansion and pushed for its intervention in the Balkans to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Among other things, she has been a lecturer at Georgetown University, president of the consulting firm Albright Stonebridge Group, which she founded in 2001, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an expert body on foreign policy and international affairs.
In 2012, thenPresident Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered America’s highest civilian honor.
In an oped published in the New York Times last month, just before Russia invaded Ukraine, Albright argued that if Putin actually did what he appeared to be doing, he would be making a “historic mistake,” come on , devastating cost to his country.
“Rather than paving the way for Russia’s greatness, an invasion of Ukraine would assure Putin the shame of having left his country diplomatically isolated, economically crippled, and strategically vulnerable to a stronger and more united Western alliance,” Albright had written.