Madeleine Albright, the first female US Secretary of State, died on Wednesday at the age of 84. “We are heartbroken to announce that Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, the 64th US Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that position, passed away earlier today. The cause was cancer,” the family said. from Twitter.
Born in former Czechoslovakia in 1937, Albright fled the Nazis as a child during World War II. She served as the US ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997, the year she was named the first woman to head the country’s State Department. She held the position until 2001.
At the UN, she pushed for a tougher line against Serbs in Bosnia. Early in the Clinton administration, Albright supported a United Nations war crimes tribunal that eventually resulted in the arrest of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
“We have lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend,” said the family of Albright, who had three daughters with American media mogul Joseph Albright, who he later divorced although he kept his last name. .
Until her death, the former secretary of state was a professor at Georgetown University and chaired the Albright Stonebridge Group, a consulting group she founded and where members of the government of current President Joe Biden worked.
(With information from Reuters)
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