Besnik Bajram Mustafaj is 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 writer and diplomat. He became foreign minister

Foreign minister

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 of Albania on September 11, 2005, when the government of Prime Minister Sali Berisha

Sali Berisha

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 took office. He resigned on April 24, 2007 and was replaced by Lulzim Basha

Lulzim Basha

Lulzim Xhelal Basha is an Albanian politician.In 2005, Basha was appointed Minister of Public Works, Transport and Telecommunications in the government of Sali Berisha where he served for two years...

 on April 25. His resignation came after strong disagreements with Berisha. Further disagreements with the prime minister led to Mustafaj's withdrawal from politics in May, 2009. Mustafaj is a former Albanian ambassador to France

France

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.