Avni Klinaku

Avni Klinaku is a Kosovar[a] Albanian politician and nationalist.[1]

Biography

Avni Klinaku was born on March 25, 1965 in the village of Mazgit, Obiliq, SFR Yugoslavia. He finished the "Miladin Popović" (now "Gjin Gazulli") technical high school in Prishtina.[1]

His political career started in 1982, as a People's Movement of Kosovo member, until 1984. He was arrested in 1984 by Yugoslavian authorities and imprisoned till 1989. In 1993, he co-founded NMLK (Albanian: Lëvizja Kombëtare për Çlirimin e Kosovës, LKÇK), and was its leader until 1997, before getting arrested again and imprisoned until 2001.[2]
Since 2007, he has served as the leader of the Movement for Unification (Albanian: Lëvizja për Bashkim, LB), a nationalist party in Kosovo, opposing the Ahtisaari Plan and seeking reunification with Albania; he is currently in his second term.[1][3]

See also

Notes and references

Notes
a.   ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008. Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 98 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 113 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References
  1. Kandidatët (Candidates) (in Albanian), Lëvizja Vetëvendosje!, retrieved 2013-09-22
  2. SERBIA: Kosovo Tension, The Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, January 30, 1997, retrieved 2013-09-22
  3. Udhëheqja (Leadership) (in Albanian), Movement for Unification Party, retrieved 2013-09-22
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