
Media in Kosovo announce that Dr. Bujar Bukoshi, one of the most important political figures in Kosovo during the 1990s and former Prime Minister of the Kosovo Government in exile, has passed away.
The news was confirmed by sources close to the family. Bukoshi died after a long period of health problems.
He lived and was treated for years in Germany, where he passed away.
WHO WAS BUJAR BUKOSHI?
Bujar Bukoshi (born 13 May 1947) was Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo from 1991 to 2000.
He served as Minister of Health in Kosovo.
Bukoshi was born in Suhareka. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Belgrade. Bukoshi was one of the founders of the Democratic League of Kosovo and was elected chairman of this party.
He was Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo in the second Thaçi cabinet from 2011 to 2014.
He defended his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in December 1986. After returning to Kosovo, he worked as a doctor in Suhareka. A specialist in Urology, he worked for several years as an associate professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Prishtina.
After the 1990s, he was fired from his job by the Serbian regime for political reasons, as one of the founders of the Democratic League of Kosovo and was also a member of the Council for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms in Pristina.