Besiana Kadare

[1] 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.

[1][2][6] 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.

[9] 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.

[10] 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.

[15] 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.

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.

Besiana's father, writer Ismail Kadare , on an Albanian postal stamp.