14 Facts About Besiana Kadare

Besiana Kadare served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations, a vice president of the United Nations General Assembly for its 75th session, and Albania's ambassador to Cuba.

Besiana Kadare was formerly from 2011 to 2016 Albania's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris.

Besiana Kadare is the daughter of writers Helena Kadare and Ismail Kadare.

Besiana 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.

Besiana Kadare served as First Secretary at Albania's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York from 2002 to 2005.

Besiana Kadare returned to Albania in 2005 to work with the United States Agency for International Development.

Besiana 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.

Besiana Kadare is Albania's first female Ambassador to the UN, in the country's 65 years of UN membership.

Besiana Kadare was appointed to serve concurrently as Albania's Ambassador to Cuba.

In October 2017, at a UN Security Council meeting, Besiana 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.

Besiana Kadare urged that member states increase their commitment to fully integrate women in their peace and security agenda.

Besiana Kadare 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.

Besiana 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.

In June 2020 Besiana Kadare was voted a vice president of the United Nations General Assembly for its 75th session.