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Hajredin Çeliku

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Hajredin Çeliku (May 4, 1927 – June 2005)[1][2] was a former Albanian politician of the Albanian Party of Labour. He was a member of the Albanian Parliament, Politburo of the Party of Labour of Albania, and served as member of the Cabinet of Albania.

Life

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Çeliku was born in Peshkopi, Diber District in the Albanian Republic on 4 May 1927. During World War II he was active in the Young Communist Movement; after the war became member of Albanian Worker Party in 1947. He completed studies in mechanical engineering at University of Tirana.[3]

In 1966, he was Deputy Chairman of the People's Assembly (Alb: Kuvendi Popullor). He served as representative in the sixth parliamentary term until 1970.[4] In the following years he worked as a functionary of the Party in the economic sector, and Secretary of the Party for Tirana.[5]

At the 8th Congress of the Party in November 1981, he was elected member of the Politburo of the party without being a candidate-member first.[6] Çeliku remained member of this supreme governing body until December 1990.

Between 1982 and 1991, he served again as representative during the tenth and eleventh legislature of the People's Assembly.[4]

On November 23, 1982, Prime Minister Adil Çarçani appointed him the Minister of Mines and Energy in his government. After that, he was in 1989 a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party. He was Minister of Transports again 1987-1989, and the next Çarçani government until 23 December 1990.[7][8][9]

In 1993, a special court rose in Tirana against Çeliku and nine other former high-ranking officials (Besnik Bekteshi, Foto Çami, Vangjel Çërrava, Muho Asllani, Lenka Çuko, Llambi Gegprifti, Qirjako Mihali, Pali Miska, and Prokop Murra). They were accused of "abuse of public funds".[10] The following sentences were given: Mihali and Gegprifti eight years each, Miska and Çuko seven years each, Çami, Çeliku and Bekteshi six years each, and Çërrava, Murra and Asllani five years each.[11][12]

References

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  1. ^ 4 MAY 1927, WAS BORN IN PESHKOPI, THE ENGINEER HAJREDIN ÇELIKU
  2. ^ Kastriot Dervishi (2012). Kryeministrat dhe ministrat e shtetit shqiptar në 100 vjet: anëtarët e Këshillit të Ministrave në vitet 1912 - 2012, jetëshkrimet e tyre dhe veprimtaria e ekzekutivit shqiptar. Shtëpia Botuese 55. pp. 102–103. ISBN 978-99943-56-22-5.
  3. ^ Who's who in the socialist countries of Europe: a biographical encyclopedia of more than 12,600 leading personalities in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Volume 1, Juliusz Stroynowski,K.G. Saur Pub., 1989, p.171
  4. ^ a b [1][permanent dead link‍] - Republika e Shqipërisë KUVEND. Tiranë 2005
  5. ^ Survey of China Mainland Press, Issues 4648-4666, American Consulate General, 1970, p.169
  6. ^ United States-East European relations in the 1990s, Richard Felix Staar, Crane Russak, 1989, p.296
  7. ^ "2 Kabinette Çarçani II und III". Archived from the original on 2005-11-24. Retrieved 2015-06-14.
  8. ^ Louis Zanga: A Major Government Reshuffle in Albania (13 February 1989) Archived 2012-09-08 at archive.today
  9. ^ Miranda Vickers,James Pettifer: Albania: from anarchy to a Balkan identity, S. 296, ISBN 1850652791, 1997
  10. ^ UA 435/93 - Albania: legal concern: Muho Asllani, Besnik Bekteshi, Foto Cami, Hajredin Celiku, Vangjel Cerrava, Lenka Cuko, Llambi Gegprifti, Qirjako Mihali, Pali Miska, Prokop Murra
  11. ^ Fred Abrahams: Human rights in post-communist Albania,Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, S. 36, ISBN 1564321606, 1996
  12. ^ Kathleen Imholz: CAN ALBANIA BREAK THE CHAIN? THE 1993-94 TRIALS OF FORMER HIGH COMMUNIST OFFICIALS Archived 2014-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
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