US President Joe Biden to accept Kosovo award on behalf of late Beau Biden

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Gazeta Express

30/07/2021 16:48

President Joe Biden on Sunday will accept the Kosovo Presidential Medal on the Rule of Law on behalf of his late son Beau Biden to honor his legacy and important contribution in our country, Gazeta Express reports.

“It is my distinguished honor to award this Sunday the Presidential Medal for Rule of Law to the late Beau Biden to honor his legacy & important contribution in our country,” Osmani wrote on Facebook.

In a pre-recorded speech shared by Osmani that will be played during the ceremony in Kosovo, Biden, in the halls of the White House, thanked the President for this “great honor.” “The nation of Kosovo, he said, “is in the hearts of the entire Biden family.”

Beau’s children, Natalie and Hunter, were off-camera as the president made his remarks. “It’s a great honor to recognize the legacy of our son Beau and their dad,” Biden said. “Beau’s work in Kosovo was heartfelt. He fell in love with the country.”

Beau Biden, who died in 2015 at age 46 of brain cancer, worked as a legal adviser in Kosovo in 2001 as the area recovered from war. Serving in the Army National Guard, Biden helped train prosecutors and judges for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Following his death, the Kosovo government renamed a 21-mile roadway in the southeastern part of the country as the Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Road. The Biden family visited Kosovo for the roadway’s naming ceremony in 2016.

US President Biden in a letter sent to the then acting president of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani in February 2021 said that Kosovo holds a “special place’ for his family because of the time his late son Beau spent in the country after the war helping to strengthen the rule of law there. /GazetaExpress/