14 minutes agoWho was Madeleine Albright, Kosovo's friend who died today
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Madeleine Albright, the first US Secretary of State, has died at the age of 84. She arrived in the U.S. as a young girl from war-torn Czechoslovakia before she became a political and feminist icon. Albright was raised in a family who fled from the Nazis and Communists in Europe and [...]
Madeleine Albright, the first US Secretary of State, has died at the age of 84. She arrived in the U.S. as a young girl from war-torn Czechoslovakia before she became a political and feminist icon. Albright was raised in a family that fled from the Nazis and Communists in mid - 20th - century Europe.
Albright's death by cancer was confirmed by her family through a statement this Wednesday.
Albright was a central figure in Bill Clinton's administration.
Madeleine Albright, who served as Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001, encouraged NATO's expansion eastward to the former Soviet bloc and helped lead NATO's 1999 bombing campaign to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
She served earlier as Clinton's ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997.
Albright was the face of US foreign policy in the decade between the end of the Cold War and the War on Terror following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, an era proclaimed by President George W. Bush as the new world round.
