Lublin Dilja was an Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

n Ambassador

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 to the United Nations

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Dilja was post-communist

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 Albania's first ambassador to the United States from 1993 to 1997, then a member of the Democratic Party of Albania

Democratic Party of Albania

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 from 2001 to 2004.

He represented his country as Ambassador to the U.N. on an ad interim

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 basis, as chargé d'affaires

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, until he was replaced in 2006 by Adrian Neritani

Adrian Neritani

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Dilja died aged 51 in New York

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, United States on February 2, 2009 following a long illness.