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	Bajram Rexhepi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		June 3, 1954 in Mitrovica) is a politician and the first post-war prime minister of Kosovo.
		He is a member of the second largest political party in Kosovo, the Democratic Party of Kosovo.
		In the general elections of November 2001 in Kosovo, Rexhepi's party won 25.7 percent of the votes, second only to Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo, and Rexhepi was appointed prime minister by the Assembly of Kosovo on March 4, 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bajram_Rexhepi (224 words)

	Democratic League of Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Democratic League of Kosovo (Lidhja Demokratike e Kosovës) is the largest political party in Kosovo.
		Ibrahim Rugova was president of the party, as well as President of Kosovo, until his death on January 21, 2006.
		The current Chair of Assembly of Kosovo, Kolë Berisha, is a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_League_of_Kosovo (234 words)

	Kosovo War Encyclopedia Article @ LocalColorArt.com (Local Color Art) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kosovo's borders did not precisely match the areas of ethnic Albanian settlement in Yugoslavia (significant numbers of Albanians were left in the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia proper, while the far north of Kosovo remained largely ethnic Serbian).
		Kosovo was by some standards the poorest part of Yugoslavia: in 1979 the average per capita income was $795, compared with the national average of $2,635 (and $5,315 in Slovenia).
		Kosovo also demonstrated that even a high-tech force such as NATO could be thwarted by quite simple tactics, according to Wesley Clark and other NATO generals who analyzed these tactics a few years after the conflict.
	www.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Kosovo_War (7472 words)

	Pravda.RU:Kosovo: Rugova calls for independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the moderate Democratic League of Kosovo, is set to be confirmed the winner of the province's first elections since it was proclaimed a United Nations protectorate in the aftermath of the NATO campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999.
		The Kosovo Action for Civic Initiatives, a non-government organisation monitoring the elections, claims that Rugova is the winner of the elections with 44.7% of the vote.
		The Democratic Party of Kosovo, led by ex-UCK leader Hashim Thaci, was second with 23.7%; the coalition of Serb parties was third (10.1%) and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, fourth, with 8.3%.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2001/11/19/21395_.html (348 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Ex-Rebel Named Premier In Kosovo
		Kosovo Serbs, who boycotted the vote, say Haradinaj is responsible for wartime atrocities committed against Serb civilians in western Kosovo.
		Serbs in Kosovo and politicians in Serbia consider him the most notorious of the former rebel commanders in the province and have repeatedly insisted he be brought to justice.
		Formation of the new government follows a coalition deal struck between Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo, which won 45 percent of the vote, and Haradinaj's Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, which came in third with 8 percent.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A33551-2004Dec3?language=printer (355 words)

	Crisis in Kosovo
		Kosovo is a province within the republic of Serbia.
		The 30-year-old military commander headed the Kosovo Albanian delegation in Paris during peace negotiations and was key to Albanian acceptance of the deal.
		Thaci, born in the Drenica region of Kosovo, joined the KLA in 1993.
	www.cincinnati.com /news/kosovo/html/2.htm (301 words)

	Kosovo - European Forum
		Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo, a descendent of Albanian guerrilla group the Kosovo Liberation Army, proved to be the second-most popular choice, pulling in 25.5 percent of the vote and 26 seats.
		The 17 November elections in Kosovo confirmed the prognosis, however surprising developments were the unexpectedly strong performance of Hashim Thaci and his party and the relatively strong participation by the Serbs.
		Kosovo is administered by United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) in cooperation with local Provisional Institutions of Self-Government established in 2002.
	www.europeanforum.net /country/kosovo (3693 words)

	Vote and volte-face
		KOSOVO, theoretically still part of Serbia and the Yugoslav Federation, went to the polls on November 17 under the supervision of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
		The Democratic League of Kosovo, led by veteran leader Ibrahim Rugova, won about 45 per cent of the vote and emerged as the leading force.
		The extremists among Kosovo's Muslim population, who had laid the groundwork for the NATO intervention, were hell-bent on driving the remaining Serbs out of Kosovo so that they could realise their dream of establishing a greater Albania.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1825/18250560.htm (1154 words)

	CNN.com - Rugova falls short for presidency - December 13, 2001
		Rugova, whose Democratic League of Kosovo party won the November 17 parliamentary election but still needs outside support for him to become president, was the only candidate.
		Kosovo was placed under U.N.-led administration in June 1999 after 11 weeks of NATO air strikes aimed at ending repression of the province's ethnic Albanians directed from Belgrade under former president Slobodan Milosevic.
		A coalition of parties representing Kosovo's minority Serbs finished third with 11.34 percent, and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, another ethnic Albanian party, followed with 7.83 percent.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/12/13/kosovo.rugova (300 words)

	Nexhat Daci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo.
		He is an academic and is a member of the Kosovo Science and Arts Academy.
		Daci was the acting president of Kosovo from January 21, 2006 when Ibrahim Rugova died from lung cancer until February 11, 2006 when Fatmir Sejdiu was elected President.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nexhat_Daci (173 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Kosovo leader Ibrahim Rugova dies
		Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999 when a Nato bombing campaign stopped Serb forces expelling ethnic Albanians during a separatist war.
		UN-mediated talks between delegations from Kosovo and Serbia had been due to begin in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, but UN spokeswoman Hua Jiang said they would now be put forward to February.
		But analysts say there is no clear successor in the Democratic League of Kosovo, and there could be a power struggle.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4634562.stm (547 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Ex-rebel picked to lead Kosovo
		PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro -- Kosovo lawmakers yesterday elected a former rebel commander to be the prime minister even though he was recently questioned by UN war crimes investigators.
		Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations since June 1999, following a NATO air war that halted a crackdown by Serb forces on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.
		Haradinaj came to prominence during the war as commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army in western Kosovo.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/12/04/ex_rebel_picked_to_lead_kosovo (366 words)

	Kosovo's moderate president clashes with Milosevic in court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kosovo's president, Ibrahim Rugova, clashed with his nemesis Slobodan Milosevic at the UN war crimes tribunal, accusing the former Yugoslav president of massacres against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
		The moderate Kosovo Albanian leader spoke of many meetings with the Serb authorities leading up to the conflict in which he said many promises were made for improvement but without any materialising.
		In reply to the Kosovo Albanian leader's concern, Milosevic told him the situation in Kosovo was a result of actions by the international community.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/677457/posts (817 words)

	Democratic League of Kosovo nominates candidate for president - Pravda.Ru
		Kosovo's largest party on Tuesday nominated its secretary-general to become the province's president, a position left vacant with the death of pro-independence leader Ibrahim Rugova.
		The post of Kosovo's president is largely ceremonial, but it recently became crucial with Rugova leading the team that is to negotiate in U.N.-mediated talks with Serb officials on whether Kosovo becomes independent or remains linked to Serbia.
		Talks between Kosovo and Serbia on the province's future were set to begin last month, but due to Rugova's death they have been postponed until February, interrupting a delicate process aimed at closing one of the final chapters from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
	english.pravda.ru /news/world/07-02-2006/75549-Kosovo-0 (716 words)

	Kosovo / Documents / Resolutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Every existing political party in Kosovo, from LDK to PBD, says that the UÇK should not form 'its own' political party, always using the same argument: the UÇK was an expression of the resistance of all the (Albanian) people of Kosovo, which was necessary to rid them of oppression.
		Returned to Kosovo in 1998 to fight with the UÇK. Although at first enjoyed the support of Western leaders, since the deployment of UNMIK and KFOR he has lost some of that support as a result of the provisional government's attempts to assert its own authority.
		Although maintaining that Kosovo was an internal Serbian problem, he became a vocal critic of Miloevic's manipulation of the Kosovo Serbs, and in 1997-8 advocated dialogue between Serbs and Albanians.
	www.balkanweb.com /kosova/document4.htm (6385 words)

	CNN - Serbs resume crackdown on Kosovo separatists - March 6, 1998
		Ninety percent of inhabitants in the Serbian province of Kosovo are ethnic Albanians.
		Serbians consider Kosovo the cradle of Serbian culture, and the region played a key role in the early days of the war that would eventually disrupt the former Yugoslavia.
		But the ethnic Albanian movement Democratic League of Kosovo claimed at least 50 Albanians were feared dead in only one village, Prekaz, after Thursday's siege.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9803/06/yugo.koso.folo (847 words)

	The Militant - 4/6/98 -- Polarization Grows In Kosovo; U.S. Gov't Pushes Intervention
		Kosovo - whose population of 2.1 million is 90 percent Albanian - had been declared an independent republic two years earlier by Albanian members of the region's parliament.
		The Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), a guerrilla group that has been waging an armed struggle for independence for several years, issued a statement calling for a boycott of the elections "due to the exceptional circumstances...
		It is these fighting Albanian workers and youth, and their potential to forge alliances in struggle with fellow working people elsewhere in Yugoslavia, who are the biggest obstacle to the designs of Washington and other capitalist powers to restore capitalist social relations in Yugoslavia and tighten the imperialist encirclement of the workers state in Russia.
	www.themilitant.com /1998/6213/6213_2.html (2046 words)

	Pakistan Times \| PT Wire: President's party wins most votes in Kosovo polls: observers
		PRISTINA (Serbia-Montenegro): President Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo became the biggest party in the province's general election, but fell short of winning an overall majority to form a government by itself, estimates by independent observers showed Sunday.
		The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo of former guerrilla leader Ramush Haradinaj was third with eight percent and trailing behind was a political newcomer, prominent media tycoon Veton Surroi whose Ora (Hour) party garnered six percent of the vote, Makolli said.
		The vote for Kosovo's 120-seat assembly is seen as a test for the international community's efforts to build a multi-ethnic democracy in the southern Serbian province which has been administered by the United Nations since a NATO bombing campaign forced Belgrade to withdraw its troops in June 1999.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/10/24/wire2.htm (312 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		No official figures are yet available, but OSCE officials are not challenging Rugova's claims that his party, the Democratic League of Kosovo, won some 60 percent of the vote across the province.
		Moderate Rada Trajkovic, a member of the Serb National Council of Kosovo and a member of Kosovo's joint administration council (along with Rugova and Thaci), insists the conditions did not exist for legal, democratic and free elections for the Serb community in Kosovo.
		Similarly, in the Serbian enclave at Gracanica, near Pristina, Father Sava Janjic, a moderate Serb, said the significance of the election is overshadowed by the absence of conditions for Serbs to participate.
	www.rferl.org /features/2000/10/30102000133713.asp (1056 words)

	CER \| Kosovo: Depleted uranium the big story
		For the last time, Kouchner led the meetings of the Kosovo Transitional Council and the Kosovo government, during which he had to deal with the usual routine—trying to balance the practical needs of daily administration and the aspirations of politics.
		The leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (former Kosovo Liberation Army) Hashim Thaçi said in an interview with the Voice of America that he supported a political solution to the Preševo conflict and urged all Albanians return to their homes.
		Those elections were won by the Democratic League of Kosovo of Ibrahim Rugova, followed by the Democratic Party of Kosovo of Hashim Thaçi and the AAK.
	www.ce-review.org /01/2/kosovonews2.html (1141 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Rugova triumphs in Kosovo polls
		Kosovo's minority Serbs boycotted the elections en masse, highlighting the deep divisions still plaguing the troubled territory.
		Both Nato and the UN administrator in Kosovo lamented the tiny Serb turnout.
		Second was the Democratic Party led by a former guerrilla leader, Hashim Thaci, with 28%.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3949293.stm (538 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kosovo: A Government at Last Kosovo finally gets a government and president after the UN smooths over disagreements between rival Albanian parties.
		Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, was elected president in the fourth round of voting on March 4.
		Serbian deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic, who heads Belgrade's Kosovo negotiating team, had asked Steiner to give the Serbs at least two ministerial and four deputy ministerial positions, a request which was turned down by the UN chief.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr2/bcr2_20020308_3_eng.txt (705 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Agreement reached on new Kosovo government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		LDK spokesman Lulzim Zeneli said on Wednesday that his party, which is led by Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, would be joined in a coalition by the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), which placed third in the elections and is led by former Albanian rebel commander Ramush Haradinaj, and two smaller parties.
		It will be the first time that Kosovo will have a strong opposition, as the second most powerful party, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), led by former rebel leader Hashim Thaci, has been left out of the coalition after being in the government for the past three years together with the LDK and AAK.
		Last month’s elections were Kosovo’s second since the conflict ended in June 1999, and officials competed for 120 seats in the parliament, which must now approve the coalition government and president, though the UN Mission in Kosovo still holds the supreme power in the disputed province.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=10189 (597 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Kosovo talks resume despite Serbian protest on ex-guerilla's role
		He added that Kosovo's past would be buried along with Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Serbia whose body was due to be laid to rest Saturday after his death last weekend in UN custody.
		The talks aim to settle the status of Kosovo, which has been a UN protectorate since NATO bombing in 1999 ended a crackdown by Milosevic's Serbian forces against ethnic-Albanian separatist rebels.
		Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, outnumbering its Serbian population by more than nine to one, demand independence for the province.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6MYJPJ?OpenDocument (555 words)

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