Edita Tahiri

Edita Tahiri (2010)

Edita Tahiri (born July 29, 1956 in Prizren , FVR Yugoslavia ) is a Kosovar politician ( ADK ) and has been Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo since February 22, 2011.

Life

Edita Tahiri received her PhD in electronics and telecommunications from the University of Pristina in 1980 . She then completed a postgraduate degree in digital telecommunications at the University of Essex in 1983 . In 2002 she earned a Masters Degree in Public Administration and a Diploma in Public Policy and Management from Harvard Kennedy School . In 2003 she graduated from the European Center for Security Studies George C. Marshall and in 2006/07 she participated in a research series in state formation at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies .

Edita Tahiri is one of the most important politicians in the recent history of Kosovo and was a co-founder of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) in the 1990s. This ranks as the second largest party in the country (since 2011: 27 out of 120 seats in parliament ) and was shaped for a long time by the former President Ibrahim Rugova , the founding father of the party. Edita Tahiri's political career began in 1991 when she was elected to the presidium of the LDK and stayed there until 1998. During the same period she was Minister for Foreign Affairs. Between 1991 and 2000 she was Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kosova in Ibrahim Rugova's cabinet. In 1991 she co-founded the Organization of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples (UNPO). She was elected to the parliament of the Republic of Kosovo for the first time in 1992 and was re-elected in 1998, 2001, 2007 and 2011. During this period she held various offices in parliamentary commissions. In 1999 she took part in the conference for the Treaty of Rambouillet .

After the Kosovo war in 1999, Tahiri distanced himself more and more from the ideals of the LDK and campaigned for reforms in the country and in her party. Together with her supporters, she founded the Democratic Alternative of Kosovo (ADK) in May 2004 . In 2007 and 2011 her new party was a coalition partner of the ruling PDK party .

In 2002 Edita Tahiri was a lecturer at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Pristina . Since the beginning of March 2011, she has also been the deputy for Kosovo in direct talks with Serbia in order to settle technical and official questions between the two neighbors. The talks are being held by the opposition , including Vetëvendosje! , heavily criticized. They are incompatible with the constitution of Kosovo .

Honors

• Honorary Citizenship of Little Rock , Arkansas , United States (1993)

Life

Edita Tahiri speaks not only her native Albanian but also English , Serbo-Croatian and Turkish . The politician, who was born in the southern Kosovar city of Prizren , now lives in the capital Pristina. She is unmarried and has no children.

Web links

• Profile on the website of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo (English, Albanian, Serbian), last accessed on April 5, 2012
• Profile on the website of the Prime Minister of Kosovo (English, Albanian, Serbian), last accessed on April 5, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edita Tahiri to lead the Kosovo delegation. (No longer available online.) Newskosovo.wordpress.com, February 26, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 5, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )