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	Rexhep Meidani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rexhep Kemal Meidani (born on August 17, 1944, in Elbasan, Albania) is an Albanian politician.
		Meidani was elected member of the parliament in the Albanian Assembly.
		Meidani was succeeded in the presidency by Alfred Moisiu in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rexhep_Meidani (243 words)

	news Page CFM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Meidani then added the job of First Lady to her roles as teacher, wife, and mother, and found a platform to realize her goals for improving the lives of women, children and families in Albania.
		Meidani's interest in and activities on behalf of the development and welfare of children ultimately led her to become a member of the Board of Directors of the Albanian Children's Foundation.
		Meidani also noted the need to raise public awareness of the educational system and of involving businesses, foundations, and non-profit organizations in funding and supporting education and individual students through grants and donations of time and other resources.
	www.washingtoninternational.com /cf/news.cfm?showpage=93 (1557 words)

	Alfred Moisiu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2002, under pressure from international organization, Moisiu became the consensual candidate of all main political parties for the presidency of the Republic of Albania after the end of the mandate of Rexhep Meidani.
		Meidani was found to be too close to Socialists, and therefore conservative candidates would not support him.
		Moisiu was elected by the People's Assembly by a vote of 97 for, 19 against, 14 abstained, and he was sworn in for a five-year term as president on July 24, 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Moisiu (806 words)

	INTERVIEW-Albanian president endorses Kosovo independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Meidani said he was optimistic about the future of Kosovo and hoped the November 17 election there would help to build new institutions and speed up the transfer of powers from international authorities to local elected representatives.
		Meidani said EU membership and independence for Kosovo would be a long process, probably requiring more than a decade.
		Meidani welcomed a recent peace agreement in Macedonia aimed at ending an insurgency by ethnic Albanian guerrillas and called for urgent ratification of the deal by parliament.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/august01/hed3967.shtml (739 words)

	Untitled
		LDK BOYCOTTS PRESIDENT OF During his visit to Kosovo, Rexhep Meidani, the President of Albania, had a meeting with representatives of Kosovo political parties: among the present were representatives of all political groups, including the Bosnian, Turk and Roma parties, but not of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), reported Zëri on page three.
		Nazarko added that regarding the status of Kosovo, Meidani was of the opinion that Kosovo Albanians should prove their ability to create institutions and build an economy and then to discuss the status, noting that the hurry to raise the issue of status in international forums might not yield the best possible option.
		Meidani's father-in-law, Sofokli Lazri is one of the few collaborators of Enver Hoxha and Ramiz Alia, which have been denounced by the "Mitrokhin Dossier".
	www.unmikonline.org /press/mon/lmm250500.html (2832 words)

	Rexhep Meidani - Ex Presidente de Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Meidani realizó una meritoria carrera docente, trabajando como profesor adjunto en el departamento de Física de la Universidad de Tirana (1966) y como profesor-lector de física estadística y teórica, mecánica quántica y física del estado sólido en esa misma universidad (1976-1996).
		En 1997 Meidani fue elegido miembro del Parlamento.
		Meidani es autor de varios libros, así como de numerosos monográficos y artículos, que han sido publicados tanto en Albania como en revistas científicas internacionales.
	www.clubmadrid.org /cmadrid/index.php?id=273 (589 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 98-09-14
		Meidani thanked the Italian friend and the country he leads for their interest and assistance for Albania's stability and development.
		TIRANA, Sept 13 (ATA)-President of the Republic Rexhep Meidani called representatives of the political parties of government coalition as well as of the opposition, represented by the Union for Democracy and the United Right, to separate meetings today.
		Meidani asked the political forces to try to find solutions to calm the situation and bring the country back to normality.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1998/98-09-14.ata.html (1767 words)

	Rexhep Meidani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Meidani has had a distinguished teaching career, working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Tirana University (1966), and as Professor and Lecturer in Quantum Mechanics, Solid State Physics, and Theoretical and Statistical Physics at Tirana University (1976-1996).
		Meidani entered politics in the 1990s, and became chair of the Central Election Commission (CEC) in the first multiparty elections in 1991.
		Meidani is the author of several books and many monographs and articles that have been published in both Albanian and international scientific journals.
	www.clubmadrid.org /cmadrid/index.php?id=137 (578 words)

	KFOR Online Homepage
		Meidani planned his visit to commemorate the one-year anniversary of NATO troops in Kosovo and neighboring countries.
		Meidani planned his visit to coincide with the one-year anniversary of NATO troops entering Kosovo.
		Amilcare Casalotto, expressed his gratitude to President Meidani for his visit and took advantage of a scheduled press conference to tell the media about the accomplishments of COMMZ (W) over the past year.
	www.nato.int /kfor/chronicle/2000/nr_000622.htm (512 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 98-09-26
		President Meidani considered these factors "potential but not at all hypothetical" and said that when they were not neutralised they could bring about a tragedy in a country.
		As regards the politics, president Meidani said that it was vital that the logic of dialogue includes finally the logic of confrontation, exception, provocation and capital political sentences of "either me, or he- type".
		President Meidani presented the need for a strategy of development through recognition and operation of key natural resources of the national economy when Albania is opening as well as the introduction of an economic- financial modern system based on a market economy.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1998/98-09-26.ata.html (4961 words)

	Albanian president wants amnesty for 'illegal wealth'
		Meidani, in a speech to a conference made available on Tuesday, said it was time Europe’s poorest country considered a “fiscal amnesty'’ to accept as legal any wealth created by its flourishing fl market.
		Meidani, speaking a few days before attending the Sarajevo summit on Balkans reconstruction, said the creation of a free trade zone and the removal of custom duties among the countries of the region could be a step towards EU integration.
		Meidani also said the privatisation of strategic sectors should be accelerated, with state banking and insurance sales being completed by the end of next year.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/19990728meidani.php (492 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Albanian President Rexhep Meidani has begun a three-day visit to the Czech Republic -- the first ever official visit to the country by an Albanian head of state.
		Correspondent Jolyon Naegele reports that the crisis in Macedonia was the focus of Meidani's comments at a news conference he held at the radio.
		In mid-March, when Meidani held a series of meetings in Tirana, Kosovar Albanian news media expressed surprise that the talks were held at a time when the leader of Kosovo's electorally strongest political party, Ibrahim Rugova of the Democratic League of Kosovo, or LDK, was holding talks in Berlin with German leaders.
	www.rferl.org /features/2001/04/10042001122700.asp (567 words)

	Interview with the President of Albania, Rexhep Meidani - JURIST: The Law Professors' Network
		President Rexhep Meidani: I would like first to dwell on the nature of the conflict in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that has provoked a very active role of the whole international community, its organizations and public opinion.
		President Rexhep Meidani: I should admit that the existing Albanian Law on Refugees could not work in the situation where in one month the population of the country increased by 13-14%.
		President Rexhep Meidani: My perspective for the development of democracy, protection of human rights but also in much broader sense the development of sustainable peace and stability in Kosova can be achieved only based in a very realistic point of view.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /meidani.htm (2282 words)

	CNN.com - Albanian leader wants end to Macedonia fighting - March 23, 2001
		TIRANA, Albania (CNN) -- Albanian President Rexhep Meidani called for dialogue to end an ethnic Albanian rebellion in Macedonia, saying that fighting there could threaten the Balkans' hopes for European integration.
		Meidani also warned Albanian political leaders that they risked losing influence if they backed the militants and said only integration with Europe could end the ethnic conflicts and inequities that have plagued the region.
		Meidani also said that Albanians were unhappy about U.S. President George W. Bush's campaign pledges to reduce U.S. forces in the Balkans.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/03/23/meidani.intv (398 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| Albanian president condemns violence
		President Rexhep Meidani of Albania has condemned the killing of a senior opposition politician on Saturday and appealed for calm.
		Mr Meidani was speaking after several hours of violence in the capital, Tirana, when thousands of supporters of the dead man, Azem Hajdari, attacked government buildings, including the office of the Prime Minister, Fatos Nano.
		In a statement on Albanian TV, Mr Meidani said "I have asked the competent authorities to act fast to shed light on this terrorist act and to do their utmost to identify and seize the culprits.
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/world/europe/newsid_170000/170808.stm (491 words)

	News: The Prague Post Online
		And while Meidani highlighted his country's reform efforts during his four-day visit in early April, he also said that Albania is unlikely to see peace or prosperity unless the Balkans themselves calm down.
		Meidani said he expects the last state bank and state insurance company to be privatized by the end of this year.
		Meidani and his country's government dismiss the idea, working instead with individual ethnic Albanian leaders in other countries to diffuse conflicts.
	www.praguepost.cz /news041801e.html (862 words)

	ZEI Press Releases 1999-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		President Meidani took the opportunity to both present his political philosophy of an increasingly interdependent world and articulate his views on the state of affairs in Albania as well as in the Balkans overall.
		Meidani saw the region at a real turning point: never before was it possible to meet with his colleagues from the other Balkan countries in such a business-like, productive atmosphere as in the summits since the Kosovo war.
		The speech of President Meidani is a result of deepening contacts between the Task Force South Eastern Europe at ZEI and Albania.
	www.zei.de /zei_english/aktuell/presse_zei_1999.htm (6935 words)

	2000/10/31 23:47 The New Balkans
		An informal meeting of the heads of states and governments of countries, which are in the new political geography called the "West Balkans", was held in the prestigious hotel "Aleksandar Palace" in the capital of Macedonia.
		Presidents of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vojislav Kostunica, of Bulgaria Petar Stojanov, of Albania Rexhep Meidani, of Rumania Emil Constantinescu and their host Boris Trajkovski, as well as Prime Ministers of Greece and Turkey, Simitis and Exhevit, respectively, met face to face yesterday in Skoplje.
		It is assumed that in the end the Western diplomacy exerted the decisive influence on the Albanians who softened their position so that President Rexhep Meidani came to Skoplje.
	www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/200010/01031-006-trae-sko.htm (1461 words)

	Calls for Resolute Action Against Terrorism Tempered in Assembly by Appeals for Caution in Identifying ...
		The President of Albania, Rexhep Meidani, and the Foreign Ministers of Belarus and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia addressed the situation in the Balkans.
		President Meidani said that Albania would be realistic about the recent crisis in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
		REXHEP MEIDANI, President of Albania: We believe the military actions taken by the anti-terrorist coalition led by the United States and the United Kingdom against the Taliban regime and Al Qaeda is justified and conforms to Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2001/ga9962.html (7132 words)

	UB Press Release
		His Excellency Rexhep Meidani, President of the Republic of Albania, will receive an honorary doctorate degree, honoris causa, at UB's ninety-first commencement on Sunday, May 13.
		President Meidani has been selected to receive this highest honor from the University for his contribution to peace in the region of the Balkans, notably between Albania and Yugoslavia.
		During the 1970s and 80s, President Meidani was a university professor and is the author of 23 books.
	www.bridgeport.edu /news/ubpress/010507-01.html (448 words)

	Albania pushes for independent Kosovo [Free Republic]
		During his one-day visit, Meidani tried to camouflage Tirana's encouragement of Kosovo's sovereignty by framing it within the more popular concept of a modern Balkans, economically and politically embraced by Western Europe.
		Meidani says he believes current events urge an increase of bilateral and regional cooperation between Macedonia and Albania, and considers the Balkans Stability Pact a key for stability in the region.
		Meidani brought up human rights in Macedonia, referring to Macedonia's own restive ethnic Albanian population.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3784fe3c325d.htm (1125 words)

	Meidani statement shocks Skopje
		Albanian President Rexhep Meidani’s statement of two days ago about the changing of borders in the Balkans has shocked the political and intellectual circles and the general public in Macedonia.
		At the news conference, Gligorov in vain tried to draw Meidani’s attention to the fact that Skopje could not agree with his statement, but the guest continued to insist that new Balkan borders would be drawn soon.
		The Meidani statement is a direct threat to peace in the Balkans, the strongest Macedonian opposition party, the Social-Democratic Alliance (SDSM), has said and underscored that Kosovo and Metohija must remain a part of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/19990712borba.htm (280 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Albania and Bulgaria emphasize importance of cooperation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		06-03-02 Albanian President Rexhep Meidani and visiting Bulgarian Parliament Speaker Ognyan Gerdjikov emphasized the importance of cooperation between the two countries.
		Meidani said: "We have very good political relations and should further promote the economic and cultural cooperation, as well as cooperation between universities."
		Meidani described the oil pipeline from Bulgaria's Burgas to the Albanian port of Vlore as "very important" for both countries.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nte21551.htm (162 words)

	First ever visit of Albanian President to Prague - 11-04-2001 - Radio Prague
		After decades of hardline rule in Albania, followed by a period of anarchy that broke loose in 1997, today's President, Rexhep Meidani, is presiding over a gradual return to stability.
		President Meidani is in the Czech Republic on the invitation of his counterpart, Vaclav Havel, and at least on the surface, the two men have some things in common.
		The two countries may have little in common, but in their very different ways, they are both having to come to terms with a hardline communist legacy.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/11752 (695 words)

	BBC World Service - The New Europe Current Series
		(MEIDANI:) During the conflict there was Albanian solidarity that was manifested quite clearly and the contribution of the Albanian families was quite great.Now we have some rivalries, we have some problems in political life; political life is again full of tension.
		But I believe that the most part of leaders now have understood that they have to work within institutions so the right way to discuss regarding the different problems is to be done within the institutions and this political rivalry will be less important.
		President Meidani's reference to institutions is an acknowledgment that things have, indeed, improved since 1997 and 1998 when violence helped topple first the administration led by President Sali Berisha's Democratic Party and then the Socialist government of Prime Minister Fatos Nano.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/theneweurope/ne9951.htm (2171 words)

	President of the Council Schuessel calls on Albania to hold all-party talks: crisis should not be hijacked for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Austria and the EU support Albanian president Rexhep Meidani's efforts to achieve moderation amongst the demonstrators on all sides," Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schüssel said today in his capacity as President of the Council.
		The President of the Council is in constant contact with Meidani, OSCE chairman Geremek and other Albanian politicians as well as with colleagues in EU member states.
		The current tension and violence which took the country to the brink of civil war on Sunday and Monday could only be defused with the co-operation of all the political forces, said foreign minister Schuessel.
	www.lex.unict.it /cde/documenti/rel_ester/98_99/appello.htm (232 words)

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