Enver Hoxhaj

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Enver Hoxhaj
2nd Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 February 2011
President Behgjet Pacolli
Jakup Krasniqi (Acting)
Atifete Jahjaga
Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi
Preceded by Skënder Hyseni[1]
Personal details
Born 1969 (age 4445)
Kosovo, Yugoslavia
Political party Democratic Party of Kosovo
Alma mater University of Pristina

Enver Hoxhaj[a] (born 1969) is the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo[b] and a Member of the Assembly of Kosovo.

Career

Hoxhaj served as a professor at the University of Pristina. He worked at WUS Austria and founded Kosovar Research and Documentation Institute. In March 2004 he joined the Democratic Party of Kosovo. He was Minister of Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Kosovo. He leads the Kosovo Assembly Committee for Education, Science, Technology, Culture, Youth and Sports. Since 22 February 2011, Hoxhaj is Minister of Foreign Affairs for Kosovo.[2]

Notes

a.   ^ Albanian spelling: Enver Hoxhaj, Serbo-Croatian spelling: Enver Hodžic, Енвер Хоџај.
b.   ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Kosovo. The latter declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. Kosovo's independence has been recognised by 107 out of 193 United Nations member states.

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