Besiana Kadare

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Kadare is the daughter of writers Helena Kadare and Ismail Kadare.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0NgqCgAAQBAJ&q=%22besiana%22+kadare&pg=PA160 |title=Welterbestädte Südosteuropas im Spannungsfeld von Cultural Governance und okaler Zivilgesellschaft: Untersucht am Beispiel |author= Matthias Bickert |publisher=University of Bamberg Press |date=2015 |isbn=9783863093006 |accessdate=2019-12-19}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mOPBgAAQBAJ&q=%22besiana%22+kadare&pg=PT206 |title=Le temps qui manque: Mémoires |author=Héléna Kadaré |publisher=Fayard|date=2010 |isbn=9782213661193 |accessdate=2019-12-19}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_ORBgAAQBAJ&q=%22besiana%22+kadare&pg=PT11 |title=Le Printemps albanais |author= Ismail Kadaré |publisher=Fayard |date= 2014|isbn=9782213659572 |accessdate=2019-12-19}}

Kadare holds a master's degree in modern and comparative literature, and a specialized high studies diploma in modern specialized literature from the Sorbonne Paris-IV University in Paris, France.[https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/bio4855.doc.htm New Permanent Representative of Albania Presents Credentials] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116221439/https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/bio4855.doc.htm |date=16 January 2021 }} United Nations, press release of 30 June 2016.

Kadare served as First Secretary at Albania's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York from 2002 to 2005.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0uPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22besiana%22+kadare |title=Permanent Missions to the United Nations| issue=284–290|publisher=United Nations |date=2008 |accessdate=2019-12-19}} She returned to Albania in 2005 to work with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

In 2008, Kadare served in Albania's Embassy in France.

Between 2011 and 2016, she served as Albania's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris.{{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/member-states/single-view/news/permanent_delegate_of_albania_to_unesco/|title=Permanent Delegate of Albania to UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|date=14 April 2011|website=UNESCO|access-date=13 November 2024|archive-date=28 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028185256/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/member-states/single-view/news/permanent_delegate_of_albania_to_unesco/|url-status=live}}

Kadare presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 30 June 2016, and since then has been the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations in New York.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ifiqDwAAQBAJ&q=besiana+kadare&pg=PA13 |title=Permanent Missions to the United Nations, No. 307 |publisher=United Nations DGACM |date= 2019|isbn=9789210479240 |accessdate=2019-12-19}} She is Albania's first female Ambassador to the UN, in the country's 65 years of UN membership.{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/jarpin2008/docs/trailblazing_magazine_april_2021|work=Trailblazing Magazine|date=April 2021|title=Albania Bids for a 2-year Mandate in the United Nations Security Council; Exclusive Interview with Besiana Kadare|author=Rudina Hoxha|access-date=2 June 2021|archive-date=28 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428152812/https://issuu.com/jarpin2008/docs/trailblazing_magazine_april_2021|url-status=live}} She was appointed to serve concurrently as Albania's Ambassador to Cuba.

In October 2017, at a UN Security Council meeting, Kadare said that the meaningful inclusion of women in conflict prevention and peace processes remained negligible, with women being sidelined during peace negotiations even when they were present, as it was always men who led and decided when and how to make peace. She urged that member states increase their commitment to fully integrate women in their peace and security agenda.{{cite web |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/world/despite-growing-awareness-urgent-need-end-sexual-violence-empower-women-conflict-zones |title=Despite Growing Awareness of Urgent Need to End Sexual Violence, Empower Women in Conflict Zones, Real Progress Seriously Lagging, Security Council Told |publisher=ReliefWeb |date=27 October 2017 |accessdate=2019-12-19 |archive-date=28 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028092251/https://reliefweb.int/report/world/despite-growing-awareness-urgent-need-end-sexual-violence-empower-women-conflict-zones |url-status=live }}

In 2018 Muslim-majority Albania co-hosted an event at the United Nations with Catholic-majority Italy and Jewish-majority Israel celebrating the translation of the Talmud into Italian for the first time.{{cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Penny |url=https://www.jta.org/2018/09/29/united-states/muslim-country-catholic-country-jewish-country-celebrate-talmud-together-no-joke |title=A Muslim country, Catholic country and Jewish country celebrate the Talmud together. No joke. |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=29 October 2018 |accessdate=2019-12-19 |archive-date=11 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411055922/https://www.jta.org/2018/09/29/united-states/muslim-country-catholic-country-jewish-country-celebrate-talmud-together-no-joke |url-status=live }} Ambassador Kadare opined: "Projects like the Babylonian Talmud Translation open a new lane in intercultural and interfaith dialogue, bringing hope and understanding among people, the right tools to counter prejudice, stereotypical thinking and discrimination. By doing so, we think that we strengthen our social traditions, peace, stability — and we also counter violent extremist tendencies."{{cite web |last=Oster |first=Marcy |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/muslim-country-catholic-country-jewish-country-celebrate-talmud-at-un-no-joke/ |title=Muslim country, Catholic country, Jewish country celebrate Talmud at UN. No joke |work=The Times of Israel |date=30 September 2018 |accessdate=2019-12-19 |archive-date=30 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930154545/https://www.timesofisrael.com/muslim-country-catholic-country-jewish-country-celebrate-talmud-at-un-no-joke/ |url-status=live }}

In January 2019 Kadare on behalf of Albania co-hosted together with the World Jewish Congress and the United Nations Department of Global Communications an event on the theme "A story of humanity: the rescue of Jews in Albania".{{cite web |url=https://alb-spirit.com/2019/02/04/besiana-kadare-a-story-of-humanity-the-rescue-of-jews-in-albania/ |title=Besiana Kadare: "A story of humanity: the rescue of Jews in Albania" |publisher=Albspirit |date=4 February 2019 |accessdate=2019-12-19 |archive-date=7 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207062510/https://alb-spirit.com/2019/02/04/besiana-kadare-a-story-of-humanity-the-rescue-of-jews-in-albania/ |url-status=live }} She delivered remarks at the United Nations at a briefing entitled "Holocaust Remembrance: Demand and Defend your Human Rights", marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and reflecting on the genocide of six million European Jews during World War Two, and the little-known record of Albanians during the Holocaust in Albania, which took in thousands of Jews who would otherwise have ended up in the Nazi death camps.{{cite web |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/01/1031742 |title='Leaders who sanction hate speech' encourage citizens to do likewise, UN communications chief tells Holocaust remembrance event |work=UN News |date=31 January 2019 |accessdate=2019-12-19 |archive-date=1 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201014924/https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/01/1031742 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://thejewishvoice.com/2019/02/04/wjc-and-albanian-mission-to-un-held-special-briefing-on-rescue-of-albanian-jews-during-holocaust/ |title=WJC and Albanian Mission to UN Held Special Briefing on Rescue of Albanian Jews During Holocaust |work=The Jewish Voice |date=2019-02-04 |accessdate=2019-12-19 |archive-date=4 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204080703/http://thejewishvoice.com/2019/02/04/wjc-and-albanian-mission-to-un-held-special-briefing-on-rescue-of-albanian-jews-during-holocaust/ |url-status=dead }}

Kadare in December 2019 called the decision to award Austrian writer Peter Handke, widely regarded as a denier of genocide, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "shameful," saying it should forever haunt the Nobel Foundation.Alice Elizabeth Taylor (10 December 2019). [https://exit.al/en/2019/10/12/widespread-outrage-among-albanians-as-genocide-denier-peter-handke-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature/ "Widespread Outrage among Albanians as Genocide Denier Peter Handke Wins Nobel Prize in Literature,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025121915/https://exit.al/en/2019/10/12/widespread-outrage-among-albanians-as-genocide-denier-peter-handke-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature/ |date=25 October 2019 }} Exit News.

Speaking in May 2021 at the UN General Assembly, while calling for a ceasefire on an outbreak of fighting between Gaza and Israel, Kadare said: "The indiscriminate firing of rockets against civilian areas from Hamas and other terrorist groups is absolutely unacceptable. This must stop immediately. There is no justification, ever, for targeting civilians indiscriminately. Like all countries in the world, Israel has the right to live in peace and to guarantee the security of its civilian population, when threatened by violent actions or attack. Like all countries in the world, it is imperative that this right to self-defense is exercised proportionately and in full compliance with international law."{{Cite web|url=http://www.ambasadat.gov.al/united-nations/en/statement-he-ms-besiana-kadare-permanent-representative-republic-albania-un-unga-formal-plenary|title=Statement by H.E. Ms. Besiana Kadare, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Albania to the UN at the UNGA formal plenary meeting on the question of Palestine|website=Permanent Mission of the Republic of Albania to the United Nations}}

Albania was voted to become a member of the 15-country UN Security Council for a two-year term, in 2022-23, on 11 June 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-united-nations-gabon-ghana-middle-east-738c4a5a12007e97d3267364249b7904|title=Brazil, UAE, Albania, Ghana and Gabon win UN council seats|date=11 June 2021|website=AP NEWS|access-date=13 November 2024|archive-date=12 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612011228/https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-united-nations-gabon-ghana-middle-east-738c4a5a12007e97d3267364249b7904|url-status=live}} Kadare said that Albania's priorities in the Security Council were to include a focus on women, peace, and security, promoting human rights and international law, preventing conflicts, protecting civilians, countering violent extremism, addressing climate change and its links to security, and strengthening multilateralism and the rules-based international order. She tweeted thanks to all countries that "entrusted us with this huge responsibility."

In June 2020 Kadare was voted a vice president of the United Nations General Assembly for its 75th session.Shkruar nga Anabel (1 July 2020). [https://www.anabelmagazine.com/news/51215/vajza-e-ismail-kadarese-emerohet-zevendespresidente-e-asamblese-se-pergjithshme-te-okb-se/eng "Ismail Kadare's daughter is appointed vice president of the UN General Assembly,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424014408/https://www.anabelmagazine.com/news/51215/vajza-e-ismail-kadarese-emerohet-zevendespresidente-e-asamblese-se-pergjithshme-te-okb-se/eng |date=24 April 2021 }} Anabel Magazine.E. Halili (1 July 2020). [https://www.albaniandailynews.com/index.php?idm=43843&mod=2 "Kadare's Daughter UN Vice President, Meta: Good Opportunity for Albania,"] Albanian Daily News.[https://www.ocnal.com/2020/07/besiana-kadare-elected-vice-president.html "Besiana Kadare elected Vice President of the UN General Assembly,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427180232/https://www.ocnal.com/2020/07/besiana-kadare-elected-vice-president.html |date=27 April 2021 }} Oculus News, 1 July 2020.

• United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), vice president of the executive board[https://www.unops.org/about/governance/executive-board 2018 Members of the Executive Board] United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), vice president of the executive board[https://www.unfpa.org/members-executive-board# 2018 Members of the Executive Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509202531/https://www.unfpa.org/members-executive-board |date=9 May 2021 }} United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

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• [http://www.ambasadat.gov.al/united-nations/en/statement-he-ms-besiana-kadare-permanent-representative-republic-albania-un-security-council-open "Statement by H.E. Ms. Besiana Kadare, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Albania to the UN, at the Security Council Open Debate on 'Women, Peace and Security,'"] 8 November 2019.
• [http://www.ambasadat.gov.al/united-nations/en/opening-remarks-he-ambassador-besiana-kadare-informal-interaction-three-rapporteurs-human-rights "Opening Remarks by H.E. Ambassador Besiana Kadare at the Informal Interaction with the three rapporteurs of Human Rights Council resolution 38/18 on 'the contribution of the Human Rights Council to the prevention of human rights violations,'"] 14 June 2019.
• [http://www.ambasadat.gov.al/united-nations/en/intervention-he-ms-besiana-kadare-permanent-representative-republic-albania-un-annual-session-2019 "Intervention by H.E. Ms. Besiana Kadare, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Albania to the UN, at the Annual Session 2019 of the Executive Board of the UNDP/UNPF/UNOPS, in the capacity of the Vice President of the Executive Board,"] 14 June 2019.
• [http://www.ambasadat.gov.al/united-nations/en/statement-he-ms-besiana-kadare-permanent-representative-republic-albania-united-nations-event-un "Statement by H.E. Ms. Besiana Kadare, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Albania to the UN, at the event 'UN pooled financing: trends, innovation, results and the way forward'"], 23 May 2019.
• [http://www.ambasadat.gov.al/united-nations/en/statement-he-ms-besiana-kadare-permanent-representative-republic-albania-united-nations-2019-ecosoc "Statement by H.E. Ms. Besiana Kadare, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Albania to the UN, at the 2019 ECOSOC Operational Activities Segment,"] 23 May 2019.
• [http://www.ambasadat.gov.al/united-nations/en/statement-he-ms-besiana-kadare-permanent-representative-republic-albania-united-nations-security "Statement by H.E. Ms. Besiana Kadare, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Albania to the UN, at the Security Council Open Debate on 'Women and Peace and Security: sexual violence in conflict'"], 23 April 2019.
• [http://www.ambasadat.gov.al/united-nations/en/statement-he-ms-besiana-kadare-permanent-representative-republic-albania-un-first-regular-session-0 "Statement by H.E. Ms. Besiana Kadare, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Albania to the UN, at the first regular session 2019 of the Executive Board of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, in the capacity of the Vice President of the Executive Board,"] 21 January 2019.

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