Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Albania)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the ministry in the Government of Albania which is in charge of foreign relations

Foreign policy

A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries...

and admission of Albania into the European Union

Accession of Albania to the European Union

Albania applied for European Union membership on 28 April 2009 and is expected to join in 2015. Officially recognized by the EU as a "potential candidate country", Albania started negotiations on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement in 2003...

and NATO. The current minister is Edmond Haxhinasto

Edmond Haxhinasto

Edmond Haxhinasto is the current deputy Prime Minister of Albania and the minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Albania. Edmond Haxhinasto was born in Tirana on the 16th November 1966. Haxhinasto graduated from the University of Tirana, Faculty of History and Philology, English Chair in1989...

, who replaced Ilir Meta

Ilir Meta

Ilir Rexhep Meta is an Albanian politician. He is the current Deputy Prime Minister. He was Prime Minister of Albania from 1999 to 2002 and has been Foreign minister twice since then.- Studies :...

due to a corruption scandal.

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