Mihal Prifti

Mihal Prifti (* 1918 in Lunxhëri , Gjirokastra County , † March 16, 1986 ) was an Albanian politician of the Party of Labor of Albania .

Life

Prifti took part in the communist anti-fascist war of independence during the Second World War from 1942 to 1944 and was first political commissar of the 1st  Brigade and then the 2nd  Division . In March 1945 he was Scientific Secretary to the Council of Ministers.

After the founding of the People's Republic of Albania, he was appointed envoy to the Soviet Union in April 1947 and was received as such by the Foreign Minister of the USSR , Vyacheslav Molotov , on April 27, 1947, before giving his credentials to the President of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Schwernik , on April 1 , 1947 May 1947. As early as June 1947 he was exposed to the rising tensions between Yugoslavia and Albania because of the visit of an Albanian cultural delegation to the USSR and the agreements concluded.

In addition, he was a member of a delegation consisting of Prime Minister Enver Hoxha , Vice Prime Minister and Interior Minister Koçi Xoxe and Justice Minister Manol Konomi both in July 1947 during a visit to Foreign Minister Molotov, and in March 1949 at a reception by Hoxha and Vice Prime Minister Spiro Koleka through Molotov's successor as Foreign Minister of the USSR, Andrei Wyschinski .

In 1950 he was elected a member of the People's Assembly ( Kuvendi Popullor ) for the first time and was a member of this in the second electoral term until 1954. During this time he was from March 1951 to April 1954, as the successor to the deposed Teodor Heba, also chairman of the people's assembly and thus parliamentary president .

Subsequently, he was head of the department for foreign policy of the Central Committee of the PPSh and held this function until December 1, 1959. He was also a candidate for the Central Committee (Central Committee ) of the PPSh.

Between 1958 and 1962 he was again a member of the People's Assembly during the fourth legislative period , where he represented the Fier district . In the early 1960s he was again ambassador to the Soviet Union.

literature

• Vangjel Kasapi, Skënder Hasko: Mihal Prifti, diplomat i shquar i Shqipërisë , biography, Tirana 2008.

Web links

• History of the People's Assembly, p. 180 (PDF; 18.3 MB)
• Leaders of the Albanian Legislature
• ALBVETERANS

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ambasadat Shqiptare neper Bote
2. ^ Owen Pearson: Albania as dictatorship and democracy: from isolation to the Kosovo War 1946-1998 , Center for Albanian Studies, London 2006, ISBN 1-84511-105-2 , pp. 179, 180.
3. ^ Owen Pearson: Albania as dictatorship and democracy: from isolation to the Kosovo War 1946-1998 , Center for Albanian Studies, London 2006, ISBN 1-84511-105-2 , pp. 188, 208.
4. ^ Owen Pearson: Albania as dictatorship and democracy: from isolation to the Kosovo War 1946-1998 , Center for Albanian Studies, London 2006, ISBN 1-84511-105-2 , pp. 197, 336, 337.
5. ↑ The Albanian Communist Party From Its Foundation Up To Its Fourth Congress (December 9, 1960) ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ List Of The Member Of Leading Albanian Party (February 20, 1961) ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Ana Lalaj, Christian F. Ostermann, Ryan Gage: "Albania is not Cuba." Sino-Albanian Summits and the Sino-Soviet Split ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 186 (Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Issue 16) (PDF; 2.1 MB)