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	1997/03/31 23:00 CABINET OF FINO OR A CABINET OF HOPE
		Fino was in his rebellious southern city of Gjinokaster when his name was mentioned in the Albanian capital, as the possible prime minister in the government of national reconciliation.
		Bashkim Fino was not a known figure on the Albanian political scene and it seems that this very fact was decisive for his appearance as a formula of compromise between the conflicting parties.
		In the first free elections for local authorities in 1992, as a candidate of the Socialist Party, Fino was elected mayor of Gjinokaster, a significant administrative and cultural centre in the south of Albania.
	www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/199703/70331-006-trae-tir.htm (1244 words)

	The Militant - 5/19/97 -- Italian Garrison Is Fired On In Albania
		Fino reportedly hopes to convince the rebel councils to dissolve and accept the authority of previously elected mayors and city councils before the elections.
		But facing stiff opposition from working people, Fino and the imperialist forces have retreated from their earlier demands to disarm the population in the insurgent cities in the short term.
		Fino has asked the European Commission and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to oversee the elections, including the drafting of a new electoral law.
	www.themilitant.com /1997/6120/6120_4.html (727 words)

	finopart.htm in Business Recorder on May 22, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Late-night efforts by Fino yielded no agreement but he began a new round of negotiations with parties in his so-called national unity government on Wednesday morning, politicians who asked not to be identified said.
		Fino was desperately trying to convince the parties in his government to run in the election, which they have threatened to boycott over regulations they say favour President Sali Berisha's former ruling Democratic Party.
		Fino met Berisha late on Tuesday and the president agreed to amend some of the rules for the election, aides to the prime minister said.
	www.paksearch.com /br97/May/22/finopart.htm (318 words)

	Albania occupied (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The prime minister Bashkim Fino is head of the opposition Socialist Party, brought into the government by Berisha in mid-March in a bid to cap the crisis.
		Fino remains committed to Berisha's deposal and hopes to succeed him in the presidency.
		The tension between them was highlighted by an armed attack on Fino's car on April 5, as he tried to visit the town of Shkoder in the north of the country, a Berisha stronghold.
	www.muslimedia.com /archives/world98/albania.htm (1087 words)

	National Intelligence Service (Albania) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many of its officers reportedly came from the northeastern region of the country, from which President Sali Berisha also comes.
		On April 1, 1997 the prime minister, Bashkim Fino, announced theat SHIK activity would be suspended effective from March 31.
		SHIK Director Bashkim Gazidede and his deputy, Bujar Rama, resigned.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/SHIK (245 words)

	Documenti
		The Albanian Prime Minister, Bashkim Fino, held the day before yesterday, a cordial meeting with the Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi and with the Italian Foreign Minister, Lamberto Dini.
		Albania has entered, so far, into a new phase of its development, where the place of the military men should be substituted by the commence of the reconstruction and cooperation, of the assistance, in general, to reconstruct the country.
		The fields of cooperation, underlined Fino and Prodi, are numerous and the common work should start as soon as possible, after the setting up of the new government.
	www.ecn.org /est/albania/english/albadoc44.htm (1086 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Following the formation of the national reconciliation government in late March, newly-installed Prime Minister Bashkim Fino (Socialist Party [SP]) was faced with the task of running the country with a ten-party government that was opposed by both Parliament and President Sali Berisha (Democratic Party [DP]).
		Just after Prime Minister Fino left Albania for the US to meet with Secretary of State Madeline Albright, on May 13 Berisha pushed an electoral law through Parliament, which ignored all of the opposition’s demands.
		Fatos Nano (SP) is prime minister, and Bashkim Fino (SP) is vice prime minister.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num2/constitutionwatch/albania.html (2747 words)

	Documenti
		Fino, more or less, it was written that, it will be of great importance to the European history the NATO summit of Madrid.
		It seems that everything, starting from the first Sunday after June 29, 1997, is moving for better for the Albanians, who have won the support of the West in their democratic attempts to re-construct the country based on democratic principals and those of the market economy.
		The municipality council, the political forces of Cerrik and the volunteers, who protected their own town, are organising the work for putting into efficiency police forces to establish peace and order in their region.
	www.ecn.org /est/albania/english/albadoc42.htm (1044 words)

	Sullivan
		Bashkim Fino, the young former mayor of Gjirokaster, watched wearily from his home a few weeks ago as armed insurgents took control of his city.
		And, as Fino quivered in his home, he got word that he was to travel to the capital at once.
		Upon assuming his new job, Fino appealed to Albania's insurgents to lay down their arms, but the insurgents were too busy shooting up everything, and nothing, to pay attention.
	www.princeton.edu /~amimages/sullivan.html (10205 words)

	National Intelligence Service (Albania) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On April 1, 1997 the prime minister, Bashkim Fino, announced the suspension of SHIK activity in Albania effective March 31, 1997.
		All funds for SHIK were blocked and President Sali Berisha accepted the resignations of SHIK Director Bashkim Gazidede and his deputy, Bujar Rama.
		President Berisha’s goal was to give the agency a new image and to restructure the agency.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/SHIK (280 words)

	The Militant - 6/2/97 -- Workers In Albania Protest Gov't Terror Gangs
		Armed guards organized by the committee together with police officers loyal to Tirana's national reconciliation government of Prime Minister Bashkim Fino successfully confronted the gang and forced them to release Gioleka and the police officer.
		A day earlier Fino met with U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright in Washington D.C. Albright voiced support for Fino's government and denounced Berisha's "parliamentary maneuvers which undermine the efforts toward bringing a solution to the crisis in Albania." On May 16 however Berisha dissolved parliament and officially proclaimed elections for June 29.
		On May 19 the eight parties that are part of the government reiterated their threat to boycott the elections and gave Berisha three days to accept an election law that will be more favorable to them.
	www.themilitant.com /1997/6122/6122_2.html (881 words)

	INTELLECTUALS AND POWER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We learn that two ex-premiers, Bashkim Fino and Leka Meksi, are writing books (of memories, I suppose) about their experiences as heads of Albanian governments.
		With the total freedom of publication, the reader disappeared, and authors couldn't hope but to be read by each other (or at least listened to, in parliament).
		Meksi and Fino will certainly write clever and useful memories, and further contribute to the fusion between power and civil society in Albania.
	members.aol.com /plaku/intellec.htm (819 words)

	CNN - Albanian PM meets rebels in south for first time - April 1, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TIRANA, Albania (CNN) -- Albanian Prime Minister Bashkim Fino went to Albania's rebel-held south on Tuesday for the first time since insurgents seized control of the region last month.
		Fino, who arrived by helicopter in the rebel-held stronghold of Gjirokastar, told reporters he was in the region to meet the "legal representatives of local power and public order" but quickly moved to discussions with rebels and elected officials alike.
		During the discussions he said he and President Sali Berisha had accepted the resignations of top Shik officials Monday.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9704/01/briefs/albania.html (197 words)

	Socialists Hijack Democracy in Albania
		On March 11, President Berisha was forced to appoint Bashkim Fino, an unelected representative of the Socialist Party, as Prime Minister.
		The appointment was an attempt to contain a mushrooming armed rebellion-encouraged by the Socialists-that has engulfed the southern half of Albania and now has swept up to the capital of Tirana.
		Berisha then agreed to hold early elections by June 1 and appointed Fino, a Socialist former mayor from the south, on March 11 to head a government of national reconciliation.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Europe/EM471.cfm (1129 words)

	Pettifer Albanian Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A key date was 10 March, when the southern regional centre of Gjirokastra went over to the rebellion, after which it spread rapidly northwards in the next few days.
		All political authority of the Berisha government was destroyed in the South in this process and, after international intervention designed to prevent a nascent north-south civil war, a 'government of national unity' under Socialist Mr Bashkim Fino was installed, with the task of organising democratic elections under international supervision.
		After a complex and difficult negotiation process designed to produce multi-party agreement on a new electoral law, elections are due to be held in June 1997.
	www.gn.apc.org /labourfocus/Pettifer57.html (2801 words)

	Albania
		Within a few days, the Albanian army had withdrawn from at least four southern cities, mostly without a shot being fired, allowing rebellious civilians to extend their control over the three main roads running south of Tirana.
		Bowing to pressure, in mid-March Berisha appointed as prime minister of a forum for Democracy-dominated caretaker government Bashkim Fino, a US-educated economist and member of the Socialist opposition and former mayor of the rebel-held southern town of Gjirokaster.
		However, the southern rebels and mafiosi refused to cooperate with the new Tirana government unless Berisha resigned.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0019536.html (2283 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Albanian Prime Minister Bashkim Fino has asked Italy to delay repatriations until Albania has restored its prisons, Germany's ARD TV reported.
		The commander of the rebel-held south, Xhevat Kociu, withdrew an ultimatum to President Sali Berisha to resign and said that the 12 rebel-controlled districts will meet on 21 March to chart their next moves.
		Prime Minister Bashkim Fino, meanwhile, canceled his planned visit to the south after the vigilante group Committee of National Salvation, which supports Berisha, threatened violence against the insurgents and people who negotiate with them.
	b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/97-03/mar20.omri (2678 words)

	Communist Movement in the Former Soviet Union - 3 Interviews
		You say that Zyuganov today is just a formal leader of the party, that in the case of a popular revolt he will become obsolete, new historical conditions will force him to give up or he would be expelled by the communists.
		The Socialist party [Socialist because the word communist in Albania was forbidden under Berisha, but in essence it does not differ much from the CPRF] and its leader, Bashkim Fino, has not only saved Berisha from certain collapse under the wave of a popular revolution, but he has prepared the way for a foreign intervention.
		Here Zyuganov and Bashkim Fino in essence are the same political figures in two different countries.
	www.mltranslations.org /Russia/3intervws.htm (8010 words)

	ATA Homepage - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Referring to the opening of the customs house in Qafe Bote, Angjeli explained that the necessary infrastructure there is ready and they were expecting only the permission from Greece.
		Bashkim Fino, Minister of Local Government, explained the elements of the local structure, the restructuring of this ministry and dwelt on some problems related with the decentralization of the governing.
		The Minister of Justice, Ilir Panda, the Minister of Transport, Ingrid Shuli, the Minister of Agriculture and Food, Lufter Xhuveli, the Minister of Education and Science, Et'hem Ruka, Minister of Health, Leonard Solis and the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Edi Rama took the floor in the plenary session as well.
	www.telpress.it /ata/1999/nov_99/hdarch05.htm (4180 words)

	Albania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Mar., 1997, following weeks of rioting over collapsed pyramid investment schemes, Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi, a Democrat, resigned.
		Berisha, however, was elected to a new five-year term and named Bashkim Fino, a Socialist, to head a new coalition government.
		Parliament declared a state of emergency as rebels gained control of large sections of southern Albania and threatened the capital.
	www.bartleby.com /65/al/Albania.html (2018 words)

	Albania Seeks to Develop Tourism (SETimes.com)
		Speaking at the event, Albanian Tourism Minister Bashkim Fino said the number of visitors to Albania increased by 15 per cent during 2004.
		There have been 43,000 more tourists compared with last year.
		Tourists mainly have been from Kosovo and European countries," Fino said.
	www.setimes.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2004/10/26/feature-03 (442 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		Hotel owners, taxi drivers and tourist officials partly blame the accident for a major slump during this year’s tourist season.
		Tourism minister Bashkim Fino told journalists at a press conference at the end of the summer that the decline was so marked that August actually failed to beat other months as the peak period.
		But all agree that the incident has only added to serious problems already faced by Albania’s tourism industry, including longer-term pollution concerns.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/sep2004/2004-09-29-05.asp (939 words)

	Workers World March 27, 1997: Behind the upheaval in Albania
		On March 14 the new Albanian prime minister, Socialist Bashkim Fino, went aboard an Italian warship off Albania's coast for talks with former Austrian chancellor Franz Vranitzky.
		Vranitzky had been sent by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to warn Fino that unless the SP could put a stop to "anarchy," they would intervene.
		The SP has tried to maneuver with the imperialists, saying that while it opposes a United Nations or NATO force, it will accept military and police advisers.
	www.workers.org /ww/albania0327.html (1760 words)

	Albania Looks to West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TIRANA, Albania () -- Albania's government warned of "unforeseen consequences" Tuesday in a deepening political crisis and said Prime Minister Bashkim Fino had appealed to the West for help.
		Despite marathon talks Monday, Fino failed to persuade most parties to end a threatened boycott of elections in the volatile Balkan country.
		"Although the debate continued all Monday, it failed not only to bring compromise or come near to compromise, but on the contrary took Albania to the edge of a deeper crisis with unforeseen consequences," Fino's office said in a statement.
	dev.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1997/05/21/024.html (100 words)

	CNN - International relief force to arrive Tuesday in Albania - Apr. 14, 1997
		The Mafia has extorted money from refugees and businessmen using the port at Vlora, and may resent any multi-national force shutting down that operation.
		As Prodi met with Albanian leaders, there also were worries that supporters of Albanian Prime Minister Bashkim Fino or his rival, President Sali Berisha, would see the Italians as taking sides in local politics.
		It will be a big mistake to support one or another," Garimberti said.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9704/14/albania.italy/index.html (651 words)

	Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on Albania (the Republic of)
		International pressure led President Berisha to agree to an interim coalition government and early elections.
		An interim government led by opposition Socialist Party (SP) member Bashkim Fino governed until July.
		The widespread lawlessness saw a mounting death toll from criminal killings and accidental shootings.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar98/eur11.htm (1113 words)

	CNN - French, Italian troops lead mission to Albania - Apr. 15, 1997
		The hundreds of French and Italian troops who disembarked are part of Operation Alba, designed to bring relief to the impoverished Balkan nation plagued by political chaos.
		"The government of Albania extends it s best thanks in the name of the Albanian people for the readiness they have demonstrated in helping us at this delicate time," Albanian Prime Minister Bashkim Fino said in a statement.
		The operation began on a note of caution.
	cnn.com /WORLD/9704/15/albania/index.html (663 words)

	Macedonian Press Agency: News in English, 98-03-04
		The President of Albania Rejep Meidani is to embark on a three-day visit to Athens next Monday, on the invitation of his Greek counterpart Kostis Stephanopoulos.
		President Meidani on Sunday visited villages in southern Albania where Greek ethnic minorities reside, accompanied by deputy premier Bashkim Fino, interior minister Neritan Ceka and transport and public works minister Gaqo Apostoli
		Referring to Greece's role in the Albanian south, the Albanian President called on the Greek government, "through the General Consulate in Gjirokaster, to contribute to the economic upgrading of the region".
	www.hri.org /news/greek/mpa/1998/98-03-04.mpa.html (2383 words)

	CNN - Italian leader promises Albanians help is coming - Apr. 13, 1997
		A caretaker government is planning to hold elections in June.
		"Italy wants to help Albania to reconstruct the state and to have quick democratic, transparent elections," Prodi told a news conference in Tirana with Prime Minister Bashkim Fino.
		But he added: "I don't want to interfere in internal Albanian policy.
	cnn.com /WORLD/9704/13/albania/index.html (453 words)

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