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Madeleine
Albright Mistaken For Cleaning Lady
Source: Wirebreak
Posted on 02/09/2000 08:10:47 PST by M. Peach
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was mistaken
for a maid during last year’s peace negotiations for Kosovo in Rambouillet,
France. According to a report in the "New York Daily News," the
Secretary of State at first wasn’t recognized by the Albanian delegation when
she walked into their room. “One
member of the delegation, who didn’t realize who she was, and probably thinking
she was some cleaning lady because it was after midnight, simply said to her,
‘Give us five minutes and please go away,’” recalled Albanian diplomat Dugagjin
Gorani in War on Europe, a British TV program. Instead, Albright exploded in
rage, swearing at the group, according to the reports. “Mrs. Albright started using explicit
language which the translators never could translate into Albanian,” says Veton
Surroi, another member of the delegation.
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