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	Aleksander Meksi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aleksander Gabriel Meksi (born 1939) was the prime minister of Albania from April 13, 1992 to March 11, 1997.
		He was a co-founder and member of the Democratic Party of Albania and took office at the same time as President Sali Berisha, who also belonged to that party.
		Meksi resigned as the country descended into chaos which was caused by financial problems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aleksander_Meksi (132 words)

	Albania - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		A coalition government was formed, with Aleksander Meksi as prime minister.
		The anger of the majority of the population, who had lost their investments in pyramid selling schemes, erupted into widespread civil unrest in early 1997, and resulted in a serious threat to the stability of the country.
		President Berisha was elected for a second five-year term by the People’s Assembly, and in late March was forced to concede to demands for a transitional government and early national elections in June.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761561564___30/Albania.html (3056 words)

	CNN - Albania's government resigns after clashes become deadly - March 1, 1997
		Speaking after the latest round of unrest, Berisha said the removal of right-wing Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi and his ministers had been agreed at talks with opposition leaders.
		Meksi's resignation was later accepted by Berisha, the state-run news agency ATA reported.
		Students on hunger strike in the southernmost town of Gjirokaster were also unimpressed by Meksi's removal.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9703/01/albania.resigns.update/index.html (794 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 97-03-02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Koha Jone reports on the Meksi government's resignation and says:"Another DP government is a demagogy and fraudulence to gain time", As regards the Vlore events the paper says:"Eyewitnesses provide testimony which involve SHIK as scenarists of the Vlore events".
		Meksi's government won re-election last year in controversial polls boycotted by the main opposition parties, which accused the Democrats of intimidation, widespread irregularities and ballot stuffing.
		Berisha announced Meksi was to quit following the bloodiest night of violence in the former Stalinist state, Europe's poorest, since 40 died in food riots in 1991.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1997/97-03-02.ata.html (7506 words)

	Milestones of Transition
		Albanian Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi said that the government would try to increase revenues in 1997 by launching a major drive against tax evasion.
		Meksi also said the government was in the process of concluding an agreement with the International Monetary Fund and would strive for an association agreement with the European Union (EU).
		Marek Belka, a free-market economist who has served as President Aleksander Kwasniewski's economic adviser for the past year, was named Poland's new finance minister, an appointment widely seen as ensuring continuity in Polish reform policies.
	www.worldbank.org /html/prddr/trans/janfeb97/art11.htm (3842 words)

	MDO - Albanian parliament passes state of emergency - 03/03/1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi told The Associated Press on Sunday that a new government would not stop the country's descent into chaos.
		Carloads of weapons were distributed throughout the countryside, and young men in the port city of Vlora fired a constant barrage of bullets into the air.
		Meksi said it would take at least a year to regain control of the country's arsenal.
	www.mndaily.com /daily/1997/03/03/world_nation/wn3c.ap (543 words)

	CNN - Unrest spreads in Albania despite PM's resignation - Mar. 2, 1997
		Berisha announced Saturday that he had accepted the resignation of right-wing Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi.
		Meksi resigned after clashes between protesters and Albania's Shik secret police left nine dead in the town of Vlora, and unrest had swelled in the capital Tirana.
		But opposition leaders said that Meksi's resignation was not enough.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9703/02/albania (605 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Aleksander Meksi arrived in Prague on 26 June for a three-day visit.
		On 27 June Meksi met with Czech Premier Vaclav Klaus who said after the meeting that the Czech Republic will probably offer Albania a $11 million loan.
		Meksi and Czech officials later signed agreements on trade and technical cooperation and on investment protection.
	www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/94-06/jun28.rfe (407 words)

	1997 Human Rights Reports: Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Journalists accused former President Berisha and the Meksi government of using excessive taxation as a deliberate means to cripple the independent and opposition press.
		The Government apparently does not plan to extend the Meksi government's decision in 1996 to prohibit foreigners who were not the part of a university-to-university agreement from teaching in the country's universities.
		The privatization ministry never effectively functioned during the second Meksi government, was disbanded under the national reconciliation government, and was then resuscitated in August under the title of Ministry of Public Economy and Privatization.
	www.usemb.se /human/human97/albania.html (9227 words)

	The Militant - 2/10/97 -- Albanian Workers Rebel Over Financial Fraud
		On January 28 Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi reiterated earlier official pledges that the government would begin paying back investors on February 5.
		Meksi stated, however, that authorities can only guarantee up to 70 percent of the principal.
		And he indicated it may take months before the money is returned, heightening fears that deposits will be quickly eaten up by inflation, which jumped to 18 percent in December, up from 6 percent a year earlier.
	www.themilitant.com /1997/616/616_1.html (3391 words)

	1993 Human Rights Report: ALBANIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Parliament in 1992 elected Sali Berisha as President for a 5-year term, and Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi heads a coalition Government dominated by members of the Democratic Party.
		Nikola Lesi, editor of the opposition newspaper Koha Jone, was tried on charges that he libeled the Chairman of the State Control Commission, was found guilty, and fined.
		Aleksander Frangaj, also at the time with Koha Jone, was charged with endangering national security for his report on alleged military maneuvers.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_eur/Albania.html (5789 words)

	Albanian police attack crowds of anti-government protesters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The collapsing schemes have prompted weeks of riots and political turmoil throughout Albania, and many Albanians blame Berisha's government, believing he either profited from the schemes or should have warned people of their risks.
		The level of anger toward the government was reflected in a Vlora coffee shop, where about 10 people watched Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi on television Wednesday.
		The same people who are desperate now initially had rejoiced at the high interest rates, Meksi said.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/020697/albanian.htm (536 words)

	NewStandard: 1/26/97
		On Saturday, helicopters dropped Tritan Shehu, who serves as deputy prime minister and foreign minister, and 10 riot policemen into an enraged crowd in Lushnja.
		Berisha and Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi have promised people they will get their money back.
		Meksi said the payout will begin on Feb. 5.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/01-97/01-27-97/d07wn148.htm (515 words)

	F&P RFE/RL Archive
		Sali Berisha on 6 July asked Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi to form a new government, Reuters reported.
		Meksi was nominated by the Democratic Party, which won 122 out of 140 parliamentary seats in May's disputed elections.
		Meksi said he was considering offering cabinet posts to opposition parties.
	www.friends-partners.org /friends/news/rferl/1996/07/960708II.htmlopt-other-unix-english- (2946 words)

	Albania Introduction - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		On April 9, Sali Berisha, a cardiologist by training and a dynamic ADP leader who had figured prominently in the struggle for political pluralism, became Albania's first democratically elected president in seventy years.
		The first noncommunist government, headed by ADP founding member Aleksander Meksi, was appointed four days later.
		This "cabinet of hope," as it was popularly dubbed, consisted mainly of young ADP activists, intellectuals without prior government experience.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/albania/albania_history_introduction.html (1408 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The country remains without a permanent constitution; a draft constitution was rejected in a November 1994 referendum.
		Principal Government Officials President - Dr. Sali Berisha Prime Minister - Aleksander Meksi Foreign Minister - Tritan Shehu Ambassador to the United States - Lublin Dilja Ambassador to the United Nations - Pellumb Kula President and Cabinet The Head of State in Albania is the President of the Republic.
		He is elected to a five-year term by the People's Assembly using secret ballot, requiring a two-thirds majority of the votes of all deputies.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/bgnotes/eur/albania9609.html (2506 words)

	Albanian Civil War (1997)
		The riots had now expanded from protests over lost money to a general protest against the government.
		On March 1, the Prime Minister, Aleksander Meksi, resigns, and the next day the government declares a national state of emergency.
		As the government and military establishments scatter to the wind and anarchy sweeps across the country, the southern half of Albania falls under the control of rebels and criminal gangs.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/albania.htm (509 words)

	92064: Romania, Bulgaria, Albania: Recent Developments
		In April 1992, the new People's Assembly convened, President Alia resigned as the last communist leader in Albania, and Parliament elected Sali Berisha, a cardiologist and chairman of the Democratic Party, to the presidency.
		Aleksander Meksi, a civil engineer, formed a cabinet comprising three parties: the Democratic Party (DP), the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and the Republican Party (RP).
		Berisha nominated a new government under Prime Minister Meksi on July 11.
	www.fas.org /man/crs/92-064.htm (8121 words)

	CNN - Outraged mourners honor Albanian riot victim - Feb. 11, 1997
		Albania's leadership says the unrest is part of a plot by leftist extremists.
		In the capital Tirana, parliament was to study an appeal by Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi to introduce emergency rule in Vlora, 90 miles (150 km) to the south.
		Two trucks of soldiers armed with Kalashnikov rifles stood by on a bridge 10 miles north of town.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9702/11/albania (575 words)

	Angry crowds take to streets in Albania
		Berisha's political foes accuse his Democratic Party of using money from the funds to finance election campaigns.
		Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi called for calm in a television address, and promised the government would start distributing next week some of the $230 million of money frozen 10 days ago in deposit accounts held at state banks by two of the failed investment schemes.
		In some cities, police stood aside as protesters blocked roads, severing transport links between the north and south of the country and with neighboring Greece and Yugoslavia.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/97/01/27/albania.2-0.html (775 words)

	Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on Albania (the Republic of)
		As violence increased in February, nine people were killed in riots in the southern town of Vlora.
		Following these incidents, the government of Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi resigned and a state of emergency was declared on 2 March.
		On 3 March President Sali Berisha, of the Democratic Party, who had been in office since 1992, was re-elected by parliament.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar98/eur11.htm (1113 words)

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		More than 2,000 Iranians have been hanged for narcotics violations since the crackdown on drug abuse began three years ago.
		EUROPE Premier Aleksander Meksi pledged Saturday to re-establish order and improve life in Europe's poorest country, calling lawlessness and poverty "the gravediggers" of Albania's fledgling democracy.
		He called for complete land privatization, gradual but full privatization of most state enterprises, the sale of state homes to those living in them, and an end to food price controls.
	www.mndaily.com /daily/gopher-archives/1992/04/20/WORLD20.STO.txt (367 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		The court thereby agreed with Tirana Mayor Albert Brojka, who had challenged an order by former Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi giving prefects the right to appoint local officials.
		The court ruled that Meksi's order violated the law on local government.
		The legislature on 3 February approved the 1998 budget, which aims to reduce the deficit from $337 million or 11.5 percent of GDP in 1997 to $274 million or 8 percent of GDP this year, "Gazeta Shqiptare" reported.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/1998/02/040298.asp (5417 words)

	Albania
		The priorities of this administration, headed by Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi, have been to re-establish law and order and to transform the economy under the guidance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
		Although I have not found information on the land tenure systems of each of these periods, I am certain that each of them (monarchy, communism, and democracy) made major changes in the way property was dealt with.
		The Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers is Aleksander Gabriel Meksi (since 10 April 1992).
	www.spatial.maine.edu /~onsrud/Landtenure/CountryReport/Albania.html (6691 words)

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		EMBASSY OF BULGARIA WASHINDTON, D.C. Sofia, December 8 (BTA) - Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev this morning met Albanian Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi, a Bulgarian National Radio special correspondent reported from Tirana in a radio newscast today.
		In the first day of his visit he conferred with his Albanian counterpart Sali Berisha.
		Zhelev's meeting with Meksi focused on economic issues.
	www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/95-12/dec11.bta (3050 words)

	CNN - Albanian insurgents defy peace overtures - Mar. 6, 1997
		Opposition leader Neritan Ceka, head of the Democratic Alliance, said the agreement was a "first step" toward political compromise, and that talks on naming a new premier would continue Saturday.
		Berisha announced last week that the government of Premier Aleksander Meksi would step down.
		Ceka said the entire country -- not just the towns protesters now control in the south -- faces "the risk of civil war."
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9703/06/albania.late/index.html (651 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Meanwhile, Berisha continued to face rebellion in his own Democratic Party.
		On April 14, about 20 DP members, and former prime minister Aleksander Meksi and former foreign minister Tritan Shehu publicly criticized Berisha, demanding new party leadership.
		Berisha struck back, however, rejecting the charges and dismissed three leading party dissenters from the party leadership: former deputy prime ministers Dashamir Shehi and Bashkim Kopliku, and former finance minister Dylber Vrioni.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num2/constitutionwatch/albania.html (2747 words)

	ALBANEWS Archives -- November 1996, week 4 (#29)
		The Albanian delegation was familiarized during the visit in USA with the American experience of the civil control in the army and participated in several military drills, where closely saw the ways of cooperation between the local and central power with the army in cases of emergency.
		/a.ke/kei/mt/k SCRB BC-ALBANIA-GOVERNMENT ALBANIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES DRAFT LAWS TIRANA, NOV 25 (ATA) - Under the direction of Albanian Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi, the Council of Ministers convened Monday and approved two draft laws and a decision which had to do with loan agreements between the Albanian government and the Islamic Bank of Development.
		A draft law ratifies the loan agreement on "The project of supplying villages with drinkable water".
	listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9611D&L=albanews&D=0&m=1456&P=2234 (1043 words)

	Albania: Only Poor to Get Pyramid Cash Back
		TIRANA, Albania -- In comments that could rekindle unrest, Albania's president said Wednesday that only the poorest investors will receive cash payments immediately from two frozen get-rich-quick funds.
		President Sali Berisha spoke a day after Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi said two state banks would start making payments on Feb. 5 to investors in two suspected pyramid schemes whose funds were frozen by the government.
		This is only an excerpt from the full story.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1997/01/30/023.html (178 words)

	Albania: Failure to end police ill-treatment and deaths in custody
		Three strike leaders were reportedly arrested on 6 or 7 May and held for three days or more.
		Eventually, on 12 May, Prime Minister Meksi and other government representatives visited Kukës and held negotiations with the strike committee, thus bringing the hunger-strike to an end.
		The detention and ill-treatment of former political prisoners in connection with their protest hunger-strike in August 1994
	www.amnestyusa.org /justearth/document.do?id=91DD8B17CC2072BE802569A5007151A1 (11420 words)

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