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Skënder Hyseni

Skënder Hyseni
Skender Hyseni at the Pentagon 2008.jpg
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
Assumed office
12 December 2014
President Atifete Jahjaga
Hashim Thaçi
Prime Minister Isa Mustafa
Preceded by Bajram Rexhepi
Personal details
Born 17 February 1955 (1955-02-17) (age 62)
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 Albanian politician who is the current Minister of Internal Affairs and the former foreign minister of the Republic of Kosovo. 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. and held the position until 18 October 2010, when he was replaced by Vlora Çitaku. Before holding this position he was the Minister of Culture, Youth, Sport and Non-Residential Affairs in the same government. Hysen had also served as a spokesman for the government and for Kosovan negotiators before the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence.

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

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