Muhamet Ismail Kapllani (born 6 July 1943, in

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) is a former

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diplomat who served as Foreign Minister of Albania in 1991.

Early life

Muhamet Kapllani was born on July 6, 1943, in the west-central town of

, present day

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. From 1962–1966 he studied at the Faculty of Western Languages, Department of English Language and Literature,

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Career

During the period from 1966 until 1974, he worked as a lecturer and head of the

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department at the

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. From 1972–1974 he served as deputy dean at the university's Foreign Languages Faculty. Later that year, he was appointed first secretary and deputy ambassador of the

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of Albania to the UN in

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and remained there until 1978. From 1984–1990, Kapllani served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in charge of international organizations. In 1991, he held the portfolio of

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in both the Nano and Bufi governments. He served as political adviser to president

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from 2002 to 2007.

References

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