Dear comrades, We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of our Party in new international conditions very favourable to the forces of peace, democracy and socialism. Twenty years ago, when the Albanian Communist Party was founded, the world was ruled by the capitalist system – a system of oppression and wild exploitation of peoples. The Soviet…

Mr. Chairman, Messrs. Delegates, On behalf of the Albanian people and their government, I greet the Paris Conference, wishing it full success in its noble work. I feel it my duty also to greet the French government and the heroic French people, and to thank them for their traditional hospitality. Following this incomparably savage war,…

Members of the Constitutent Assembly, On October 22, 1944, in Berat, the Anti-fascist National Liberation Council of Albania entrusted me with the great honor of heading the first Democratic Government of Albania, which had the attributes of a provisional government. Responsible to the people for the accomplishment of the heavy tasks assigned to it and…