Kiço Mustaqi

Kiço Mustaqi (born 22 March 1938) is a former Albanian general and politician of the Albanian Party of Labour. He served as Chief of the General Staff of Albanian Armed Forces, the last Minister of Defence of the communist era in Albania, and was a member of the Politburo.

Mustaqi was born in a Peçë village of Sarandë District (today's Finiq municipality). He is ethnic Greek. He left the village at the age of 13, moving initially in Kuçovë to follow the school there, and later entered the Skanderbeg Military High School in Tirana where he graduated as a military officer in 1960, at the eve of the Soviet-Albanian split. He immediately joined the Armed Forces (Alb: Forcat e Armatosura të Shqipërisë), initially serving in a remote military establishment, and then returning to Tirana where he worked for 4 years at the same military school he graduated from. During 1964-1967, he studied at the "Mehmet Shehu Military Academy". He worked in later in Tropojë by the end of 1966, Chief of General Staff of the Offensive Brigade and later Commander of the Offensive Brigade in 1968-1969, following in Vau i Dejës as Commander of the Infantry Brigade. In 1974, he became Director of the Military Praparation in the Ministry of Defence. Two years later, Commander of the Military Corpus of Tirana. Following three years he served as Operative Commander of the Albanian Army, and Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Albanian Army. In 1982, he became Chief of the General Staff, replacing Veli Llakaj.

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