Behar Shtylla was an Albanian

Albanians

Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...

 diplomat and three times Foreign Minister of Albania for an overall 17 years period (1953-1970. He was born in Korçë

Korçë

Korçë is a city in southeastern Albania and the capital of the Korçë District. It has a population of around 105,000 people , making it the sixth largest city in Albania...

 and died in Tirana

Tirana

Tirana is the capital and the largest city of Albania. Modern Tirana was founded as an Ottoman town in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini, a local ruler from Mullet, although the area has been continuously inhabited since antiquity. Tirana became Albania's capital city in 1920 and has a population of over...

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Shtylla was one of the most experienced Albanian diplomats. He started as the preferred person of Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha

Enver Halil Hoxha was a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary andthe leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania...

 to work in Albania's foreign affairs. His first nomination was as a plenipotentiary ambassador in Paris

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. In 1953 he replanced Enver Hoxha in the role of the Foreign Minister, which he kept for 17 years and under three different governments until 1970.