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Highlights from Madeleine Albright’s groundbreaking career

Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died of cancer. She was 84.

By Associated Press

March 23, 2022

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Then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets with then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright, at a New York hotel, March 17, 1993.
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Then-U.S. ambassador Madeleine Albright speaks to the Security Council on May 7, 1994.
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Then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright speaks to reporters following Security Council consultations regarding the situation in Iraq at U.N. Headquarters, on Sept. 4, 1996.
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Then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, center, gets briefing on the situation around the border between two Koreas from American Sgt. Tim Ingoldsby, left, during her visit to guard post Ouelletle in the border village of the Panmunjom, north of Seoul, Feb. 22, 1997. Standing at right is U.S. Gen. Richard B. Myers.
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Then-Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov talks with then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Kuala Lumpur on July 27, 1997.
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Then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, left, shakes hands with then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, at the start of their bilateral talks at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Berne, Switzerland, on Nov. 15, 1997.
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Then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shakes hands with U.S. soldiers during her visit to Air Base Eagle near Tuzla, Aug, 30, 1998. About 6,000 US soldiers were deployed in Tuzla area in a peace keeping mission in Bosnia.
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Then-Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon, left, and then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright pose for photographers prior to a bilateral meeting at the State Department Friday, April 9, 1999, in Washington.
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Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, right, swears in James C. Hormel, left, as the new ambassador to Luxembourg at a State Department ceremony on June 29, 1999, in Washington. Hormel became the nation's first openly gay ambassador. Timothy Wu, center, holds the Bible.
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Then-Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat greets then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright before the start of U.S. President Bill Clinton's address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 29, 2000.
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Then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright smiles as she shakes hands with Russian acting President Vladimir Putin, right, in Moscow's Kremlin, on Feb. 2, 2000.
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President Bill Clinton confers with then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright before delivering the final statement at the Middle East Summit in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, on Oct. 17, 2000.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, toasts with then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at a dinner in Pyongyang, on Oct. 24, 2000.
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Then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, left, talks with Botswana's Health Minister Joy Phumaphi, in Gaborone on on Dec. 11, 2000, where Albright announced a U.S. government donation of 200 trailers to be used as HIV counseling centers across Botswana. Phumaphi holds a symbolic key with an attached AIDS ribbon.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shakes hands with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations at the Washington Club Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008 in Washington.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 22, 2009 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on NATO.
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Former Secretary's of State, Colin Powell, left, Madeleine Albright, center, and Henry Kissinger, attend the State Departments gala dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms and endowment campaign for the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011.
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President Barack Obama awards Madeleine Albright the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House, on May 29, 2012, in Washington.
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Vice President Joe Biden greets former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as he arrives to speak at the Atlantic Council's conference, in a special tribute to NATO and the European Union, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, in Washington.
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Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, right, and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, greet each other during a meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 24, 2014. Ukraine was holding a presidential election but it had become dangerous for many in the east to be associated with the vote, since the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence a week earlier.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 26, 2016.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks at a reception celebrating the completion of the U.S. Diplomacy Center Pavilion at the State Department in Washington, Jan. 10, 2017.
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Former U.S. President George W. Bush greets former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Madeleine Albright, right, after they participated in a panel discussion at a forum sponsored by the George W. Bush Institute in New York, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.
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Former Polish president and freedom fighter Lech Walesa give flowers to former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday March 8, 2019. The leaders, who held power in the 1990s, as Eastern Europe transitioned to democracy after decades of communist rule, met amid celebrations of Poland's 20 years in NATO.
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, center, speaks with ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, right, and then-NATO commander Wesley Clark during anniversary celebrations in the capital Pristina, Kosovo, Wednesday, June 12, 2019.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives for a memorial service for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018.

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