 Albanian King Zog was in fairly serious debt and wanted help from Italy, so Mussolini sent foreign minister Gian Galeazzo Ciano to him with a list of demands, which Ciano described as impossible to accept.Once King Zog declined, Mussolini said that he must accept the demands by 7 April 1939, or Italy would invade.The invaders had already disembarked to invade before that time.