After finishing high school in Shkodra, he continued his studies in Vienna and later at the Mekteb-i Mülkiye.

During his tenure as vice-prefect, Fico, along with co-founders Zyber Hallulli, Mytesim Këlliçi, Luigj Shala, and Xhelal Toptani, co-founded Streha Vorfnore, the city's first public orphanage on November 28, 1917, the date of the fifth anniversary of the Albanian Declaration of Independence.

[3] His political career culminated in 1929 with a 19-month appointment as Foreign Minister of Albania—a post he was removed from in 1930 for his opposition to the Fascist Italian regime.

Fico first served as an ambassador to Turkey and Bulgaria in the late 1920s, before his time as Foreign Minister of Albania.

He then served as ambassador to Yugoslavia (1933–36), Greece (1937) and Germany (1938-9), where Fico helped dozens of Jewish people escape the country on Albanian tourist visas.