Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state and who helped steer Western foreign policy in the aftermath of the Cold War, has died. She was 84 years old.
Highlights
- Madeleine Albright was 84 years old.
- The cause of her death was cancer, her family says.
- She was a central figure in President Bill Clinton’s administration.
- She championed the expansion of NATO and championed human rights and democracy across the globe.
- Albright pushed for the alliance to intervene in the Balkans to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing in the 1990s.
- President Joe Biden calls her a “force” and calls her “fervent faith” that “America is the indispensable nation,” Biden says in a lengthy tribute to her in the wake of her passing.