Z. Mustafa NANO

The appointment to the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Confederation of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein constitutes a special moment in my life, and this not only because with this my life has taken an almost unbelievable turn, but because for the first time I will have to serve the country differently, with a new motivation and energy, as a civil servant. I am facing a challenge that excites me like nothing else before, and that has already made me reconsider many things within myself, even the relationship with my country and my compatriots.

This feeling or my condition is not only related to the fact that I will have to serve my country as an Ambassador, but also to the fact that I will do this in Switzerland, in this country where the human species has made/extracted its best, giving the world an almost perfect model of governance, peace, stability, prosperity and coexistence. There is no nation on this planet that does not have something to learn from Switzerland.

Personally, I was pleasantly surprised by the audacity of some foreign author of the first half of the 19th century to see the Albania of the time as a country with Swiss potential. The reasons why Albania behaved like a Switzerland of tomorrow are not very clear (Mountains and mountains? Or maybe even religious diversity?), but this did not prevent some of our renaissance people from making this impossible “parallel” their own, and imagine Albania of the future as a second Switzerland.

Albania almost never became Switzerland, but something else beautiful happened: many Albanians, as if they wanted to show that it does not make sense to the desire of the renaissance people, which I just spoke about, have now made Switzerland a second homeland. Thousands of Kosovo Albanians have been living here for several generations. Some of them are integrated, and others are trying to achieve the same thing. They should be encouraged in this integration process, but at the same time, in an effort to preserve and strengthen their ties with their country of origin and identity, let them know that the door of the Albanian Embassy will always be open, in the same a measure that those who have a passport of the Republic of Albania will also find open. The RSH Embassy in Bern will be at the service of the latter and available to the former. Not only because it is our duty, but also because the Albanians of Switzerland are a premise, even a guarantee, for the strengthening of relations between our countries.

These relations, it is known, are not insulting, but their strengthening will be a priority in my diplomatic activity. And this advantage has nothing to do with any predisposition of mine. On the contrary, it constitutes the goal and foundation of the work of every Ambassador.

I salute you!

Curriculum vitae

Mustafa Nano is a journalist, writer and well-known personality of public life in Albania. He initially practiced the profession of electronic engineer, after graduating in this field at the University of Tirana in 1985. In the period 1990-1994, he was engaged in political activity. From 1995 to 1997, he served as a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then in the Embassy of the Republic of Albania in Croatia. From 1997 onwards, he wrote for a number of daily newspapers such as Shekulli, Korrieri, Shqip, etc.

He has also moderated several television programs, such as Déjà Vu on Top-Channel, Provocacija on ABC News and Arnautistan on MCN TV. Throughout his career as a journalist, he has been sensationally involved in public debate, especially on matters of politics , culture, history, religion, etc., where he has caught the eye for his controversial attitudes and thinking “outside the box”. He has also exercised the role of a public intellectual in the field of interpretations in the theater halls. of a genre that combines public discourse and stand-up comedy, through which he has continued to defend the same ideas and hold the same positions with a stage language. However, his most important contribution is as a writer. After the year 2000 he published a series of books, from which “Red Landi” attracted attention, which is a fictional description with some biographical elements of life during the communist regime, the study books “Pax albanica”, “Sandwich” and “Gegë e toske”, the trials “How I met” and “Provocator”, as well as the novels “Farewell father” and “A week in Manastir”.

Mustafa Nano returned to diplomacy in 2023. On July 12 of this year, he was decreed by the President of the Republic as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Albania to the Confederation of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein, a position he assumed on September 29, 2023. Currently is a resident of Bern. Mr. Mustafa Nano is fluent in English and Italian and has good knowledge of French.