Mihal Prifti

Mihal Prifti (* 1918 in Lunxhëri, district of Gjirokastra; † 16 March 1986) was an Albanian politician of the partia e puNES e Shqipërisë ( PPSh ).

Biography

Prifti participated during the Second World War from 1942 to 1944 on the Communist anti-fascist war of independence and was at first political commissar of the 1st Brigade and then the 2nd Division. In March 1945 he was Scientific Secretary of the Council of Ministers.

After the founding of the People's Republic of Albania, he was appointed in April 1947 as ambassador to the Soviet Union and was received as such by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Vyacheslav Molotov on April 27, 1947, before the one the President of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Shvernik his credentials. handed over in May 1947. In June 1947, he looked at the emerging tensions between Yugoslavia and Albania suspended due to the visit of a delegation of Albanian culture in the USSR, while the agreements concluded.

In addition, he was both in July 1947 a member of consisting of Prime Minister Enver Hoxha, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Koçi Xoxe and Minister of Justice Manol Konomi delegation during a visit to Foreign Minister Molotov, and in March 1949 at a reception of Hoxha and Vice - Minister-President Spiro Koleka by Molotov's successor as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Andrei Vyshinsky.

In 1950 he was first elected as a deputy of the National Assembly ( Kuvendi Popullor ) and this was in the second term until 1954. During this time he was from March 1951 to April 1954 as the successor of the deposed Teodor Heba also Chairman of the National Assembly and thus Parliament President.

Following this he was Head of the Department for Foreign Affairs of the Central Committee of the PPSh and remained in this position until 1 December 1959. Moreover, he was also a candidate member of the Central Committee (CC ) of the PPSh.

Between 1958 and 1962 he was again during the fourth term deputy of the National Assembly and represented the district of Fier there. In the early 1960s he was again ambassador to the Soviet Union.