Madeleine Albright
| Madeleine Albright | |
 Madeleine Albright | |
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| 64 thSecretary of State of USA | |
| 23 January 1997 - 20 January 2001 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Government | Clinton administration |
| Predecessor | Warren Christopher |
| Successor | Colin Powell |
| 20thU.S. Ambassador to the UN | |
| 27 January 1993 - 21 January 1997 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Predecessor | Edward J. Perkins |
| Successor | Bill Richardson |
| Biography | |
| Birth name | Jana Marie Korbelov |
| Date of Birth | 15 May 1937 (1937-05-15) (age 73) |
| Place of birth |  Prague ( Czechoslovakia ) |
| Nationality | U.S. |
| Party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse | Joseph Medill Patterson Albright (1959-1982) (divorced) |
| Children | Anne Albright Alice Albright Katherine Albright |
| Graduate (e) | Wellesley College Johns Hopkins Columbia University |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
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Madeleine Korbel Albright is a diplomat American born on 15 May 1937 in Prague ( Czechoslovakia ), who was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993 to 1997 and the 64th Secretary of State of the United States (equivalent to Minister of Foreign Affairs) between 1997 and 2001 under the second term of President Bill Clinton.
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Biography
Childhood
Jana Marie Korbelov was born in Prague on May 15 1937 Parents Jewish converts to Catholicism to escape persecution Semitic. His father, Josef Korbel was a Czech diplomat. Jana Marie changed her name to Madeleine when registering at a school Swiss , this name is a French adaptation of "Madlenka", the nickname given him by his Czech grandmother. In 1939 , the Korbel family fled to London after the annexation of Bohemia and Moravia by Nazi Germany. His grandparents were not so fortunate and died in exile in the camps of Auschwitz and Theresienstadt. After the Second World War , the family moved to Belgrade where Josef Korbel became ambassador to Czechoslovakia in Yugoslavia.
In 1948 , after the takeover by the Communists in Prague, the family emigrated to the United States where Josef became a professor of international relations at the University of Denver , he will have Condoleezza Rice as a student.
Formal studies
After his schooling in Switzerland , Madeleine Korbel graduated in political science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. It acquired U.S. citizenship in 1957.
She continued her studies, learned Russian and received a master's and doctorate in law public of the Columbia University. She then speaks fluent English , the French , the Czech and Russian , while having knowledge of German , Polish and Serbo-Croatian.
Early career professional and political
From 1976 to 1978 , she is Assistant Parliamentary Senator Democrat Edmund Muskie. From 1978 to 1981 , she worked at the White House in the team of Jimmy Carter and was named to the National Security Council ; In this post she makes the foreign policy of President Jimmy Carter.
After the end of the Carter presidency in 1981 , she worked for the "Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars" at the Smithsonian Institution , where she writes about the role of the press in political changes in Poland , in the early 1980. She also works for the Center for Strategic and International Studies as a specialist in the USSR and the Eastern Europe. She also co-founded a think tank, the Center for National Policy (Center for National Policy) which she will preside. In 1982 , she was appointed professor of international affairs at the University of Georgetown.
In 1984 , Madeleine Albright is a consultant in international politics of the Democratic candidate for vice-president Geraldine Ferraro and then in 1988 the Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. From 1993 , when the Democrats return to power, it is the government and joined the Clinton administration.
Ambassador to the United Nations
On 9 February 1993 , she was appointed U.S. ambassador to the UN by President Bill Clinton (with rank in the President's Office ). In this role, he was alleged to have been slow to intervene during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
In 1996 , during an interview with Leslie Stahl in the magazine of CBS Sixty Minutes called, she said of the sanctions against Iraq and the supposed death of half a million children, "I think it's a difficult choice but it is price. ("I Think This is a very hard choice, But The price - we think The Price is worth it."). She later reported to have regretted this response but continue to fully support principles of international trade sanctions.
Secretary of State
She was appointed Secretary of State by President Bill Clinton on 5 December 1996. After being confirmed in this role by a unanimous vote of the Senate , she was invested as the 64th Secretary of State on 23 January 1997.
On 27 September 1996, the Taliban took Kabul, the Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said that while "it is a positive step "strong political support, since the fundamentalists seized power in Kabul.
Celebrated as the first woman Secretary of State and as the woman who agreed to this date at the highest political rank in the history of the United States, Madeleine Albright is the advocate of democracy , of human rights , while promoting the U.S. approach on labor, trade and environment. Its action is paramount in Bosnia-Herzegovina and especially during the war in Kosovo against the Serbian. In 2000 , she renewed her promotion of democracy called for the establishment of a "community of democracies." However, his detractors accuse him of war crimes because of its support for international sanctions against the Iraq.
Since 2001
After leaving office Bill Clinton in January 2001 , she was approached by Czech President Vaclav Havel to succeed him as president of the Czech Republic , a proposal she declined.
In 2001, Albright founded the Albright Group, a consulting firm International Strategy based in Washington, DC Privacy
In 1959 , Madeleine Albright married Joseph Medill Patterson Albright, a journalist in Chicago. The couple had three daughters, twins, but divorced in 1982. Madeleine Albright has a brother named John.
Posterity
Madeleine Albright is listed on the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Trivia
She appeared in an episode of the TV series Gilmore Girls in its own role.
References
- Madeleine Albright - 60 Minutes , YouTube, 1999-02-21. Retrieved on 2010-06-01
- The Mighty & the Almighty ... - Google Books , Books.google.com. Retrieved on 2010-06-01
- esky, " Madeleine Albright - , En.wikiquote.org. Retrieved on 2010-06-01
- in The Great Game, op. cit., p. 162
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| Preceded by | Madeleine Albright | Followed by | |
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| Warren Christopher |
| Colin Powell | |
| Edward J. Perkins |
| Bill Richardson |
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