Sali Ram Berisha is an Albanian cardiologist and conservative politician who served as the president of Albania from 1992 to 1997 and 32nd prime minister from 2005 to 2013. Berisha serves as Chairman of the Democratic Party of Albania since 2022 and has held the position previously from 1990 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2013. He also serves as the incumbent Leader of Opposition in the Albanian parliament.
George Andreas Papandreou is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for Movement for Change.
Fatos Thanas Nano is an Albanian socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of Albania in 1991,from 1997 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2005. He was the first leader and founder of the Socialist Party of Albania and a member of the Albanian Parliament from 1991 to 1993 and 1997 to 2009. He reformed the anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist ideology of the Labor Party of Albania into social democracy for its successor,the Socialist Party. During his leadership,the Socialist Party,as a result of reforms,joined the Socialist International and Party of European Socialists. Nano was a candidate in the 2007 presidential election but did not win. He again tried in the 2012 presidential election,but he did not even qualify as a candidate,because the leaders of parties in Parliament obstructed their respective MPs to elect him as candidate in the elections.
The Democratic Party of Albania is a conservative political party in Albania. It has been the largest opposition party in the country since 2013.
Zef Bushati is the ambassador of Albania to the Holy See since 10 May 2002. This followed the signing of an Agreement of Cooperation between Albania and the Holy See on 23 March 2002,which was at that time awaiting the ratification of the Albanian parliament.
Stavros Lambrinidis is a Greek lawyer and politician,currently serving as Ambassador of the European Union to the United Nations. He was previously Ambassador of the European Union to the United States from March 2019 until December 2023,European Union special representative for human rights from 2012 to 2019 and Minister for Foreign Affairs in Greece from June 2011 to November 2011.
The Bushati family is an Albanian Muslim family that ruled the Pashalik of Scutari from 1757 to 1831.
Lulzim Basha is an Albanian lawyer and former politician who served as chairman of the Democratic Party of Albania and as the Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2022 and again from 2023 until 2024.
The United States and North Macedonia enjoy excellent bilateral relations.
Albania and China established diplomatic relations on November 23,1949. Albania has an embassy in Beijing and China has an embassy in Tirana.
Arben Malaj has been Minister of Finance and Economy in the Republic of Albania different times from 1997 until 2005. He is known for transforming the Albanian economy into a European profile,after the hard social-economic crisis that this country passed during the year 1997. He served as a Member of the Albanian Parliament from 1997 to 2013 chairing the Parliamentary Committee on Economy and Finance.
Sandro Gozi is an Italian politician,former Undersecretary of State for European Affairs in the Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni governments.
Bujar Faik Nishani was an Albanian politician. He served as the president of Albania from 24 July 2012 to 24 July 2017.
Ditmir Bushati is an Albanian politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2019. He previously chaired the Parliamentary Committee for European Integration.
Olta Xhaçka is an Albanian politician and Socialist Party member of Parliament. She served as the minister of Europe and foreign affairs from January 2021 to September 2023. She served as Albanian minister of social welfare and youth between March 2017 to August 2017 and as minister of defense from September 2017 to December 2020.
Mustafa Nano is the ambassador of the Republic of Albania to Switzerland.
The Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement,officially Abraham Accords:Declaration of Peace,Cooperation,and Constructive Diplomatic and Friendly Relations,is an agreement to normalize diplomatic and other relations between Bahrain and Israel. The agreement was announced by President Donald Trump on September 11,2020,and followed on from a joint statement,officially referred to as the Abraham Accords,by the United States,Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on August 13,2020. It was formally signed on September 15,2020,at the White House in Washington,D.C.,and made Bahrain the fourth Arab state to recognize Israel and the second within a month.
Local elections were held on 14 May 2023 in Albania. Mayors and municipal council seats were being elected in each of Albania's 61 municipalities.
Igli Hasani is an Albanian high-ranking diplomat and security expert. Since September 2023 he holds the position of Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania in the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama.
