On 18 December 2023, in Pristina, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Latvia, Elita Kuzma, presented her credentials to the President of the…
Lawmakers in Kosovo elected and swore in a new president Sunday for a five-year term, the Balkan nation s second female leader in the post-war period. The 120-seat parliament, which convened in an extraordinary session for two days, gave 71 votes for Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, the former parliament speaker, in the third round of voting, while 11 votes were invalid. Two opposition parties and the ethnic Serb minority party boycotted the voting. In November, the 38-year-old Osmani-Sadriu temporarily replaced former President Hashim Thaci, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo s war for independence from Serbia in the late 1990s, who resigned after facing charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special court based in The Hague.