Analyst Ben Andoni recalled the late former Prime Minister Fatos Nano through his meeting with Slobodan Milosevic in 1997.
Andoni described this meeting as extraordinary, given the difficult time Albania was going through, which, among other things, had to deal with the war crisis in Kosovo.
According to the analyst, even though he knew that he would be judged and widely rumored for this meeting, Nano showed that his character and logic allowed him to make such a diplomatic move.
"In my opinion, it is very important to emphasize a little what happened about the Kosovo war. The meeting with Milosevic by Mr. Nano was emphasized that if they did not talk about Kosovo, they had nothing to talk about. Meanwhile, Milosevic had gone all the way not only to make up for what was happening, keep in mind that he had passed Dayton. And this man who everyone knew what he was doing and was approaching Kosovo, was meeting the Albanian Prime Minister for the first time. This was an extraordinary event. And a year later, Mr. Nano... He did not create a big deal here because Mr. Nano, because of his character, because of his liberalism, because of his logic, could meet anyone and he did this.", Ben Andoni confessed on "Çdo Kënd" with Merita Haklajn, on A2 CNN.
He further added that Fatos Nano committed an even more extraordinary act after the meeting with Milosevic, where he called for the bombing of the Yugoslav Republic by NATO.
"But Mr. Nano holds an extraordinary position in an interview after a year for a foreign body where he was one of the first to say that if it is not bombed, it cannot continue like this because the war is approaching, it is almost approaching our territory and Macedonia is also affected. Macedonia was the only country of the former republic that was peacefully divided with the former Yugoslavia and even Greece and these are the moments that made this clear. But Albania in those years was in extraordinary conditions," Andoni emphasized.
The analyst further revealed that people in Nano's inner circle have told him that he never wanted to become prime minister, but found himself in the right place after the fall of the regime. For Andoni, Nano differs greatly from Edi Rama and Sali Berisha in terms of the relationship he wanted to have with power.
"From people who were there and are now dead, I heard that Mr. Nano did not want to be prime minister. His extremely hedonistic character without having high career goals, for example, as Mr. Berisha has, as Mr. Rama has, did not stand up to him. He was satisfied with special things and there are some anthropological traits that you distribute your social psychological strength to other things. For Mr. Nano, the first prime minister, let's say, the first mandate was a kind of obligation to do it. He probably understood his instincts. He had extraordinary instincts in my opinion, which were in the right place and here you had accomplished a great thing. Being prime minister of a country, while you were a second- or third-level employee and being catapulted to prime minister is not small. Fate struck in '92 that he was the one who was", Anthony discovered.
