International Commission of Control

The International Commission of Control was a body set up by the Great Powers in 1913 to administer newly independent Albania. Made up of representatives of Austria-Hungary, Italy, Britain, France, Germany and Russia, with one Albanian member, it took over from Ismail Qemali's provisional government and drafted the Organic Statute of 1914. It handed power to Prince Wilhelm of Wied, whose rule collapsed after the First World War began.