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In the News (Wed 9 Jul 08)

  
  President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with Prime Minister of Albania, Dr. Sali Berisha (June 10, ...
Albania, a country of denied freedoms and human rights, banned the constitution, a country of hyper collectivization and true human slavery, and the most extreme isolation, today is the country of political, economic, consolidated pluralism, of excellent religious centers, of functioning, working democracy.
Prime Minister, we thank you very much for your commitment to freedom in Iraq, as well as Afghanistan.
I commended the Prime Minister for the progress that Albania has made in defense reform -- in other words, part of becoming a member of NATO requires a reformation of the defense forces.
tirana.usembassy.gov /07pr_0610.html   (3544 words)

  
 Prime Minister - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In some monarchies the prime minister exercises powers (known as the Royal Prerogative) that are constitutionally vested in the monarch and which can be exercised without the approval of parliament.
Prime Ministers can be found in both constitutional monarchies (as is the case in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Norway and Japan), and in republics, where the head of state is an elected or unelected official with varying degrees of real power.
Contrary to popular and journalistic myth, most prime ministers in parliamentary systems are not appointed for a specific term of office and in effect may remain in power through a number of elections and parliaments.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /prime_minister.htm   (1283 words)

  
 Prime Minister Article, PrimeMinister Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A prime minister is the chief member of the cabinet in a parliamentarysystem of government, or alternatively an official in a presidential system or semi-presidential system whose duty is to execute the directives of the President and manage the civilservice.
Prime Ministers can be found in both constitutional monarchies (as is the case inthe United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Norway and Japan), and in republics, where the head of state is an elected orunelected official with varying degrees of real power.
The Prime Minister shall be appointed by the President of the Republic after consultation and with the partiesrepresented in the Assembly of the Republic, due regard being had to the [general] election results.
www.anoca.org /dates/years/prime_minister.html   (1214 words)

  
 Fatos Nano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was Prime Minister of Albania during several periods and leader the Socialist Party of Albania.
He was nominated for the post of Prime Minister by the then President Ramiz Alia in 1991, but was forced to resign after popular protests and strikes.
That same year, following general elections, Nano was appointed Prime Minister by President Rexhep Meidani, only to resign again in 1998 after the protests that followed the assassination an opposition leader, Azem Hajdari.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fatos_Nano   (349 words)

  
 Western Policy Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Albania believes that the support of the United States for the establishment of "standards before status" in Kosovo is the correct approach and hopes that this process will serve as a foundation for peace in the province, Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano stated at a Policy Forum organized by the Western Policy Center.
Although Albania, Croatia, and F.Y.R. Macedonia are not joining the alliance this year, the countries were represented at the event by their prime ministers as NATO aspirants, which signed the Adriatic Charter with the United States in May 2003, aimed at advancing these nations' integration into the alliance.
The prime minister said that Albania, in its fifth year as part of NATO's Membership Action Plan, was one of the first countries to join the "coalition of the willing" with respect to taking military action against Iraq, having lived under totalitarianism and brutality.
www.westernpolicy.org /PolicyForums/20040330Nano.asp   (657 words)

  
 World Press Review - Albania - Meta Miscalculates
Stepping into this minefield is Albania's new prime minister, Pandeli Majko, who assumed the post for the second time on Feb. 6, 2002, having previously occupied it between 1998 and 1999.
The ministers said they were innocent but agreed to step down for the sake, they said, of stability.
In its Jan. 30 editorial, Albania, an independent Tirana newspaper with a right-wing slant, also praised Meta for stepping down, saying that the move would be "a fatal blow for Nano." Albania allowed that Meta had been a capable administrator, but that he had wasted too much time shoring up his personal power.
www.worldpress.org /europe/0214albania.htm   (994 words)

  
 US Dept of State - U.S., Albania Sign International Criminal Court Article 98 Agreement
PRIME MINISTER NANO: What we did today is a further step toward strengthening strategic partnership with the United States, but in the meantime a new step towards Europe and Euro-Atlantic standards and institutions.
Prime Minister, I thank you for your understanding and for this expression of friendship toward the United States, and pleased to be able to reciprocate.
PRIME MINISTER NANO: Well, I believe Secretary Powell has rewarded Albanian political, social and institutional efforts to this huge transformation from consumer of stability to reinforcer of regional and global stability as we have shown in Bosnia, Afghanistan and actually in Iraq as members of the coalition of the willing.
usinfo.state.gov /dhr/Archive/2003/Oct/14-557421.html   (907 words)

  
 The Myth of Greater Albania
Albania was created in 1912 (its borders finally settled in 1913) in response to Austro-Hungarian demands.
Albania - culturally, a veritable part of Italy in the past - was cut off from it and from the Renaissance it spawned.
They vowed to liberate Albania economically and socially, now that it has been liberated politically (their reference point was, strangely enough, the bourgeoisie war of 1912).
www.cc.jyu.fi /~aphamala/pe/issue3/mythalba.htm   (4537 words)

  
 Albania
Ten years transition's experience of Albania have demonstrated that values of democratic system, advantages and possibilities of development through growing of free initiative, establishing of political, economic, financial and social conditions for implementation of international standards of human rights and freedoms have found a huge support from the population of the country.
Meanwhile, quantitative urban growth was not compensated and accompanied by the preparation of living conditions according to city standards, and by the increase of capacities and the role of political, economic and cultural centers and institutions established to urban peripheries.
The urbanization in Albania is being implemented as a complex process, as a combination of in-urbanization (massive settlement of population in cities), and ex-urbanization (space extension of urban phenomenon).
www.un.org /ga/habitat/statements/docs/albaniaE.html   (827 words)

  
 Albania - MSN Encarta
Majko resigned as prime minister in October 1999, after losing a Socialist Party leadership vote.
Meta’s resignation coincided with a decision of the Democratic Party to return to the parliament; the Democrats had refused to take their parliamentary seats for seven months, claiming that the June 2001 elections were rigged.
In February 2002 Socialist Party leaders selected Majko to succeed Meta as prime minister, and in June the parliament elected Alfred Moisiu to replace outgoing president Rexhep Mejdani.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561564_11/Albania.html   (271 words)

  
 NATO Speech: Press point with Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General and Mr. Fatos Nano, the Prime Minister of ...
Albania is there, has done a lot on defence reform; has been making great progress in that respect and this is also a subject which was discussed by Allies.
Also the figures and capacities of Albania on the basis of an individual assessment be promptly considered in the frame of the next NATO summit to receive the deserved, everybody hopes to be further deserved, invitation for membership to the Alliance.
I mean we here have a Prime Minister who shows the ambition and the drive on the basis of the Membership Action Plan for the Atlantic integration of Albania and Allies support that process.
www.nato.int /docu/speech/2005/s050324a.htm   (1730 words)

  
 ipedia.com: George Papadopoulos Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
On October 28, 1940, Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas refused to allow the Italian army to peacefully cross the borders between Greece and Albania.
Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini had already issued orders for an invasion in that event.
The same year, on April 21, Papadopoulos led a successful coup with fellow officers, taking advantage of the volatile political situation that had arisen from a conflict between King Constantine II and the aging prime minister, Georgios Papandreou.
www.ipedia.com /george_papadopoulos.html   (583 words)

  
 President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability With Prime Minister Berisha of Albania
Albania is the country that signed -- that is implementing successfully their stabilization association agreement with the EU, and received the message from Riga summit on the possibility of receiving an invitation for NATO membership.
PRIME MINISTER BERISHA: I would like to add for the citizens of Kosovo and its leadership, in my discussions I found out consciousness and awareness of President Bush of the consequences of prolongation on -- unacceptable prolongation around justifiable -- prolongation of the process.
PRIME MINISTER BERISHA: I can assure you totally that President Bush and his administration support powerfully Albania's project for full membership into NATO.
www.state.gov /p/eur/rls/rm/86260.htm   (3668 words)

  
 Macedonian Press Agency: News in English, 98-09-29
Prime Minister Kostas Simitis is to open the conference of "The European Union after the Amsterdam Treaty", to be held in Athens on Thursday.
Prime Minister Kostas Simitis is to chair a cabinet committee conference today that will examine the course of the projects concerning the Olympic Games of the year 2004.
Greek minister of defense Akis Tsochatzopoulos stated that the resignation of Albanian prime minister Fatos Nano was not expected and this development signals a new political crisis and a crisis in the political system of the country.
www.hri.org /news/greek/mpa/1998/98-09-29.mpa.html   (3473 words)

  
 Building an inclusive future for Albania's informal sector | Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Between 80 and 90 percent of property and business assets in Albania are ‘extralegal'--outside the formal economy--according to preliminary results from a UNDP-backed diagnosis of the country's economic and legal systems by de Soto's Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), which is being carried out at the request of the Albanian Government.
"Prime Minister Berisha has made fighting extralegality a priority both for economic prosperity but also for the building of democracy.
Headquartered in Peru and headed by economist Hernando de Soto, the ILD think tank focuses on development and legal reform in order to assist governments in providing their citizens, particularly the poor, with the necessary legal tools to move their assets from the extralegal economy into an inclusive, national and international, market economy.
ild.org.pe /press-releases/june2007/albania   (661 words)

  
 Investment Plan Provokes Political Stir
The prime minister's mix of market-stimulating mechanisms previously employed by reform governments in new European Union member states such as Hungary and Slovakia envisages a string of industrial parks across the country.
Responding to Socialists' criticism, Suzana Guxholli, the current prime minister's economic advisor, admits that the opposition did try an Albania One Euro type of programme when they were in power, but claims they used it to enrich allies.
If the prime minister's reports of enthusiastic receptions during his foreign visits are to be believed, then new investors may not mind.
www.iwpr.net /?p=brn&s=f&o=325147&apc_state=henhrca   (1246 words)

  
 Current Narco-trafficking Routes in Albania Linked with Former Prime Minister Fatos Nano
Albania has become an increasingly important country for the movement and management of the illicit international narcotics trade, establishing itself as a safe transit route between East and West because of its human resources and the involvement of Albanian political figures in the traffic.
In December 1997, Prime Minister Fatos Nano started consultations with the former Chairman of the Legislative Commission in Parliament, the Socialist, Fehmi Abdiu (who later become the head of the Supreme Court), to abrogate the anti-trafficking laws approved of 1996.
Eduart Hemlesi is the partner of the wife of Prime Minister Nano, Xhoana Nano, and was suspected in the 1992 murders in connection with the physical elimination of the group of Gazmend Muca.
www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/dfasa071706b.htm   (2026 words)

  
 CER | Albania: Prime Minister meets with Bush
A press release from the prime minister's office says that Meta and Bush were in full agreement about all the issues discussed in their meeting.
The Albanian Prime Minister reported to Kohler that the three-year agreement known as ESAF 2 (Albania-IMF), which ends in July of this year, has helped the Albanian government establish macro-economic stability, develop the country's market and bring about privatization reforms.
Minister Ruka said he would try to expedite the sale of the site to the Church in order to begin construction as soon as possible.
www.ce-review.org /01/16/albanianews16.html   (795 words)

  
 Department of Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Prime Minister Sali Berisha meets the ambassador of Switzerland in Tirana, Mr.
The Prime Minister Sali Berisha met on Wednesday the ambassador of the Saudi Arabia in Tirana, Mr.
Alhamdan presented to the Albanian Prime Minister the congratulations of the Saudi King and government for being appointed as the Prime Minister of Albania.
www.keshilliministrave.al /english   (413 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Sam Vaknin: The Myth of Greater Albania (Part 1)
To reiterate, it is the belief that people of Albanian extraction, wherever they may be, regard their domicile as part of a Greater Albania and undertake all efforts necessary to create such an outcome.
For example, Kosovo should be part of this Greater Albania, so the myth goes, because prior to 1912, when the Serbs occupied it, Kosovo had administratively been part of an Ottoman-mandated Albania.
Albania, mired in the twin crises of economy and identity, had little mind or heart for Kosovo.
www.ce-review.org /99/17/vaknin17.html   (1085 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Albania: Nano Proposes Albania Be An Italian Protectorate Tirana, 11 December 1997 (RFE/RL) --Albania's socialist Prime Minister Fatos Nano says his country should become an Italian protectorate.
He told the paper's correspondent in Tirana, "Italy is a European country and Albania needs precisely a European protectorate to recover its institutions." He says Albania will show is able to accept 'protection' in order to become a European Union member state as soon as possible.
The chairman of the Albanian parliament's foreign affairs committee, Sabri Godo, rejected Nano's appeal as "irresponsible and uncontrolled".The deputy chairman of Albania's main opposition Democratic Party (DP) Genc Pollo responded by calling Nano "an abnormal prime minister" and calling for his immediate resignation.
www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/97-12/dec11g.rfe   (285 words)

  
 EMBASSY OF GREECE: PRESS OFFICE - News Flash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Prime Minister Costas Simitis will pay a one-day visit to neighboring Albania today, at the head of a large Greek government delegation.
During their meeting, the prime ministers of the two countries are expected to sign a joint communique, as well as an agreement for the opening of two new border posts and a memorandum on terms of Greece's macroeconomic assistance to Albania.
The prime minister's visit to Albania occupied a large part in yesterday's daily press in Tirana, with most newspapers placing emphasis on the issues to be on the agenda of talks between Mr.
www.greekembassy.org /press/newsflash/1997/October/nflash1015f.html   (416 words)

  
 Zog of Albania Summary
He was previously Prime Minister of Albania between 1922 and 1924 and President of Albania between 1925 and 1928.
Ahmed Zogolli was born in Castle Burgajet, Albania, third son to Xhemal Pasha Zogolli and Sadijé Toptani.
In 1932 and 1933, Albania was unable to pay the interest payments on its loans from the Society for the Economic Development of Albania, and the Italians used this as a pretext for further dominance.
www.bookrags.com /Zog_of_Albania   (3324 words)

  
 Sali Berisha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(born October 15, 1944) is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania.
Berisha was born in Vicidol, a village near the Kosovo border, in Albania's mountainous northeastern Tropojë region.
The Democratic Party of Albania was founded by students and intellectuals the 13th of the same month, and in 1991, Berisha was elected its chair, controlling it until now.
www.surfindark.com /index.cgi/000110A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sali_Berisha   (989 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It is, as you know, only four years since the communist regime in Albania fell, and the country could begin the arduous road away from oppression and isolation from the surrounding world.
The government has also asked the Swedish Embassy in Rome, which is responsible even for Albania, to investigate the circumstances regarding the specific case of violation, which is referred to in your fax.
At the preparation of Albania's applicatio= n for membership of the European Council the respect for human rights will of course be dealt with thoroughly.
www.qrd.org /qrd/world/europe/albania/swedish.prime.minister.response   (416 words)

  
 President Bush Holds Joint Press Conference with Albanian Prime Minister - Associated Content
Albania is currently working hard to establish and strengthen democracy, and most Albanians appear to idolize the United States and its leaders because of the countrie's democratic government.
Albania currently has 120 elite soldiers stationed in Iraq, a figure expected to double this summer.
Prime Minister Berisha had this to say about Albanian support for the war on terror: "Albanians are very proud about the friendship with the U.S.A., and the cooperation they have with your nation in the war against international terrorism, of their presence on your side in Iraq, Afghanistan.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/277495/president_bush_holds_joint_press_conference.html   (629 words)

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