People and Politics | Summer series - Albanian Defence Minister Gazmend Oketa

1,530 views · Published 25 August 2008 · 7:08 · Indexed 4 November 2026

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He's young, charismatic and most recently, defence minister of Albania. Gazmend Oketa has been in office since Spring 2008 - mandated to transform the country's army - originally in place to support the then dictatorial regime - into a modern NATO force. It's helped him to have studied in Germany during the 1990's. His wife teases him: "He's typically German - all punctuality and precision." These are the qualities Oketa is now trying to instill in his army.

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