Behar Shtylla

{{Short description|Albanian diplomat (1918–1994)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Behar Shtylla

| image = Behar Shtylla (portret).jpeg

| nationality = Albanian

| office1 = Minister of Foreign Affairs

| term_start1 = 23 July 1953

| term_end1 = 16 March 1966

| primeminister1 = Enver Hoxha
Mehmet Shehu

| predecessor1 = Enver Hoxha

| successor1 = Nesti Nase

| order2 = 23rd Speaker of the Parliament of Albania

| term_start2 = 13 January 1969

| term_end2 = 20 November 1970

| predecessor2 = Abdyl Këllezi

| successor2 = Fadil Paçrami

| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|03|11}}

| birth_place = Korçë, Albania

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|12|08|1918|03|11}}

| death_place = Tirana, Albania

| signature = Behar Shtylla (nënshkrim).svg

}}

Behar Shtylla (11 March 1918{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5g4WAQAAIAAJ&q=Behar+Shtylla+1918|title = International Directory of Foreign Ministers, 1589-1989: Supplement, 1945-1995|isbn = 9783598112768|last1 = Truhart|first1 = Peter|year = 1996}} – 8 December 1994) was an Albanian diplomat, member of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania{{cite book |title=Studime Filologjike, Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH, Instituti i Gjuhësisë dhe i Letërsisë |year=1971 |page=183 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mPs9AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Behar+Shtylla%22 }} and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1953 to 1966.{{Cite web|url=http://rulers.org/albgov.html|title = Albanian ministries, etc}}

Shtylla was one of the most experienced and versatile Albanian diplomats, starting as the preferred person of Enver Hoxha to work in Albania's foreign affairs. His first nomination was as a plenipotentiary ambassador in Paris. In 1953 he replaced Enver Hoxha as Foreign Minister,{{cite book |first=Owen |last=Pearson |title=Albania as dictatorship and democracy: from isolation to the Kosovo War Volume III |work=The Centre for Albanian Studies |year=2006 |page=461 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9781845111052 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D4wx7kQp4bgC&q=behar+shtylla&pg=PA370 }} remaining in the post for 13 years until 1966.