Skënder Hyseni

Skënder Hyseni
1st Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
3 March 2008 – 18 October 2010
President Fatmir Sejdiu
Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi
Preceded by Position Created
Succeeded by Vlora Çitaku (Acting)
Enver Hoxhaj
Minister of the Interior for Kosovo
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 December 2014
President Atifete Jahjaga
Prime Minister Isa Mustafa
Preceded by Bajram Rexhepi
Personal details
Born 17 February 1955
Podujevo, Kosovo, Yugoslavia
Political party Democratic League of Kosovo
Alma mater University of Pristina
Bloomsburg State College
Aberdeen University

Skënder Hyseni (Serbo-Croatian: Skender Hiseni) (born 17 February 1955 in Podujevo) is a Kosovar politician who is the current Minister of Internal Affairs and the former foreign minister of the Republic of Kosovo[a]. Hyseni graduated at the University of Pristina, branch of English Language and Literature in 1979. Hyseni stayed for a short period of time for study purposes in Bloomsburg State College-USA (1978) and in Aberdeen University-Scotland (1986).

He was nominated as a Foreign Minister on 3 March 2008.[1] and held the position until 18 October 2010, when he was replaced by Vlora Çitaku.[2] Before holding this position he was the Minister of Culture, Youth, Sport and Non-Residential Affairs in the same government.[3] Hysen had also served as a spokesman for the government and for Kosovan negotiators before the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence.

Party Affiliation

He is member of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) party.

Portfolio

Past and Present Activities and Functions

Notes

a.   ^ 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 108 out of 193 United Nations member states.

References

  1. ↑ Official notice of Hyseni's nomination as Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Official website of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo. Link accessed 2008-05-28
  2. ↑ Minister Hyseni handed over the duty of the Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo. Link accessed 20 October 2010
  3. ↑ Governmental Cabinet, Republic of Kosovo (with individual photographs), Official website of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, still listing Skënder Hyseni as the Culture, Youth, Sport and Non-Residential Affairs Minister. Link accessed 2008-05-28.

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