Madeleine Albright first female US Secretary of State, dies
0Madeleine Albright, first female US Secretary of State, dies
Madeleine Albright, the first female US Secretary of State, has died. Albright, who succumbed to his cancer, died at the age of 84.
Madeleine Albright, the first female US Secretary of State, has died at the age of 84.
In a statement made by Albright's family, it was stated that the former foreign minister succumbed to the cancer he was diagnosed with.
Albright, who was appointed as the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations (UN) by former US President Bill Clinton in 1993, then served as the Secretary of State from 1997-2001.
Born to a Jewish family in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1937 and immigrating to the United States at the age of 11 after his Czech diplomat father fled the Nazi and Communist regime, Albright strongly encouraged NATO expansion and military intervention in the former Yugoslavia during his tenure.
In the "60 Minutes" program on US Television, Albright's answer to the question of whether it was worth it that half a million children died as a result of the embargo imposed on Iraq, more than Hiroshima, said, "It was a very difficult choice, but I think it was worth the price" in the world. caused the backlash.
Albright argued in the New York Times in February that Russia's attempt to attack Ukraine would be a "historical mistake".