Alfred Moisiu

About Alfred Moisiu

Who is it?: Fourth President of Albania
Birth Day: December 01, 1929
Birth Place: Shkodër, Albanian
Birth Sign: Capricorn
Preceded by: Ndriçim Karakaçi
Succeeded by: Safet Zhulali
Spouse(s): Milica Moisiu (-2002)
Children: Rubena (1958) Ana (1962) Mirela (1964) Admir (1970 - 2004)
Profession: Military

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Alfred Moisiu was born on December 01, 1929 in Shkodër, Albanian, is Fourth President of Albania. Alfred Moisiu was the fourth President of Albania and was in the office from 2002 to 2007. He was a military man who joined the public life and contributed towards the transformation of the country in more ways than one. Alfred Moisiu belonged to a family who had served the army for many generations and in fact his father Spiro Moisiu was a Major General in the Albanian Army as a result it was not really a surprise when he too joined the army. Ater graduating from the military engineering school in Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union, Alfred Moisiu served in various capacities in Albanian Army. Moisiu also served as the Deputy Minister of Defence and later on as the Minister of Defence. However, his career also suffered when the plan of bunkerisation did not go as planned and he had to spend some years out of public life. His appeal as a leader of the nation, however, was never beyond doubt as he became the presidential candidate endorsed by two of the biggest parties in Albania.
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Biography/Timeline

1946

In 1946 he was sent to the Soviet Union as a student. In 1948 he graduated from the military engineering school in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad). He served in Tirana as a platoon-commander at the United Officers' School (1948–1949) and as a Teacher at the Military Academy (1949–1951). From 1952 to 1958 he attended the Academy of Military Engineering in Moscow, graduating with a Golden Medal (a distinction for excellent study).

1967

Back in Albania, Moisiu continued his military career in the engineers' department of the Ministry of Defense. From 1967 to 1968 he attended the higher courses of general staff at the Defense Academy of Tirana. At the same time he commanded a pontoon brigade in Kavajë (1966–1971). In 1971 he became the chief of the Bureau of Engineering and Fortifications of the Ministry of Defense (under Enver Hoxha, when thousands of concrete casements were built as defense against states held to be hostile).

1979

In 1979, Moisiu received a PhD in military science. From 1981 he was Deputy Minister of Defense. Under the ministers Beqir Balluku, Mehmet Shehu and Kadri Hasbiu he held this post until October 1982 (Prime Minister Shehu died violently in December 1981). During this time Moisiu was the main Architect of the bunkerisation of Albania. He was appointed by Enver Hoxha to fill Albania with bunkers, a legacy that Albania has until today. But the bunkerisation of Albania produced a disaster, causing Enver Hoxha to send Moisiu to Burrel, where he served as the commander of an engineers' company from 1982 to 1984. Moisiu left active Service as a general.

1991

He returned to public life in December 1991 when he was appointed Minister of Defense in Vilson Ahmeti's technocratic government. He held that post until April 1992 when the first Government of the Democratic Party, led by Aleksander Meksi, was formed.

1995

As he was a top communist aparatchik, the new executive invited Moisiu to work as a counselor to the Minister of Defense. In 1994, Safet Zhulali appointed him the deputy minister charged with elaborating the defence politics of Albania. Moisiu's advice was to concentrate efforts on the reconstruction of the armed forces, which were in bad condition, and to start preparations for joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). In 1994 he founded the Albanian North Atlantic Association and was elected as its President. On January 24, 1995 he signed an individual association treaty binding Albania with NATO's Partnership for Peace project. From 1995, Moisiu attended to the VIPs' courses of the NATO College in Rome.

1997

When the Albanian Socialist Party came to power in 1997, Moisiu lost his post in the Ministry. In the following years, he took an active part in extra-governmental activity, organizing international and all-Albanian conferences where issues of security and defense in South East Europe, armament control and collecting arms from civil persons were discussed.

1998

After the constitutional reform of November 1998, politics is mainly the task of the government. Moisiu promised to contribute to the strengthening of parliamentary democracy, the stabilization of the judiciary system and the integration of Albania into Euro-Atlantic structures.

2002

Moisiu was elected by the People's Assembly by a vote of 97 to 19 (with 14 abstentions) and he was sworn in for a five-year term as President on July 24, 2002.

2005

Moisiu speaks Russian, Italian, and English. He has written many articles and research papers on military science, and defense and security issues. His book Kosovo: Between War and Peace was published in English in 2005. Moisiu is a big supporter of the unification of Albania and Kosovo.