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"The biggest mistake in my life was becoming an ambassador!"/ Mustafa Nano: If I hadn't left, I would have ended up with Dr. Petrela!
2026-03-23 21:19:58 / POLITIKË
Mustafa Nano, invited to the show "The Unexposed" on MCN TV, spoke about his experience as an ambassador in Switzerland, which he described as one of the biggest mistakes in his life.
Nano said he was not cut out for this profession and that he felt like a prisoner, so he left. He apologized to the people who supported him in this endeavor, however, he said that if he continued he could end up "with Dr. Petrela."
"I had a stint in the world of journalism. Years ago I had a brief experience as a diplomat, but 1997 happened and diplomacy was very partisan. I decided to leave. It was also my desire to become a journalist. This time I left because journalism was getting to my throat. I said I was reliving the experience I had. It turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
I went with the good will to do that job, as long as I could, I did it. I enjoyed it for about nine months. Then at a certain point I found myself in a void, it wasn't for me.
Diplomats are people who have a certain cut, they have the vocation of a state dignitary that I do not have. For 30 years I was a free man, without subordinates, without superiors. There, for the first time, I had superiors, I also had subordinates.
I want to apologize to everyone, not just the authorities who supported my request, because what I did is not a normal thing. It was an event involving many people, the President decreed it, I was on a parliamentary committee, I was surrounded by a lot of kindness. They didn't welcome it, but I apologize to them. The reason is, it wasn't my job, I found myself in a bad place. If I insisted on preserving the honor of my work, I could end up with Dr. Petrela. It was a conflict between the work I was doing and the person.
There were many things, I went with the idea that I would be active as an ambassador, I could write something about the relations between Switzerland and Albania. I thought that I could give an interview, and they have to give permission to the ambassador to do it. If a newspaper wanted an interview, I had to get permission from the ministry.
They weren't afraid that I would step out of line, because I knew this, but they had it as a practice. Even an article that you could publish to defend the honor of the Albanian race, you would get permission. I have never received permission to write.
I remember that a television station wanted an interview about the Ahmetaj case and I didn't see anything wrong with talking about it. I told the journalists okay, I notified the foreign ministry and they said no. I saw myself imprisoned and said, I'm escaping. This is a profession that loves its people, not people like my job or yours.
Those things that are visible from a distance have class, elegance, you can enjoy these, but the people who have a tendency for this, are determined for this, hats off to them. In the embassy today, there are no issues of a political nature.
"It was a wrong decision, it was one of the wrongest in my life. I feel obliged to apologize to the people who were involved in that story. I want the colleagues I had for a year and a half to be people who are career diplomats," said Nano.
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