Jusuf Zejnullahu

Jusuf Zejnullahu (born 1944 in Democratic Federal Yugoslavia) was a Kosovar politician.

Background and early life

He was active in Kosovo politics throughout the 1980s, and occupied a number of important economic positions within the SAP Kosovo autonomic province and Yugoslavia as a whole. On 14 April 1989 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from Kosovo.

Prime Minister of Kosovo

On 4 December 1989 Zejnullahu was elected Prime Minister (Chairman of the Executive Council) of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, then part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

On 3 April 1990 he and a number of other ethnic Albanian members of the Provincial Executive Council, including one of the two vice-premiers, offered their resignations, in protest at Slobodan Milošević’s measures in the region, and the handling of the separatist unrest by the local Communist Party of Kosovo.

At the 23 May session the Kosovo Assembly rejected these resignations, and the officials continued in their posts.

Declaration of Secession

Zejnullahu was later involved in the declaration of secession of July 2, 1990, after which Kosovo's Assembly and Executive Council were dissolved. He was later designated Prime Minister-in-exile of Kosovo's shadow provincial government, and arrested for his pro-independence activities.

Emigration to the United States

In 1999 he emigrated to the United States, where he remains.^[1]

References

↑ Former Kosovar leader rejoices from afar, St. Petersburg Times, February 19, 2008

Prime Ministers of Kosovo

Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo (Federal unit of SFR Yugoslavia) (1944–1992)	Fadil Hoxha Ali Shukriu Ilija Vakić Bogoljub Nedeljković Bahri Oruçi Riza Sapunxhiu Imer Pula Ljubomir Neđo Borković Namzi Mustafa Kaqusha Jashari Nikolla Shkreli Daut Jashanica Jusuf Zejnullahu

Republic of Kosova (Recognized only by Albania) (1992–2000)	Jusuf Zejnullahu Bujar Bukoshi Hashim Thaçi (interim)

UN-administered Kosovo (2000–2008)	Bajram Rexhepi Ramush Haradinaj Adem Salihaj (acting) Bajram Kosumi Agim Çeku Hashim Thaçi

Republic of Kosovo (Recognized by 110 UN member states) (2008–present)	Hashim Thaçi Isa Mustafa

Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1986-1990)

Ivan Brigić Milanko Renovica (1986-88) Uglješa Uzelac (1988-90) Ivica Račan Stipe Šuvar Kolë Shiroka (1986-88) Jusuf Zejnullahu (1988-90) Milan Pančevski Vasil Tupurkovski (1986-89) Ljubomir Varošlija (1989-90) Marko Orlandić (1986-89) Vidoje Žarković (1986-89) Miomir Grbović (1989-90) Perko Vukotić (1989-90) Dušan Čkrebić Radiša Gačić (1986-89) Petar Škundrić (1989-90) Štefan Korošec Franc Šetinc (1986-88) Boris Mužević (1988-90) Boško Krunić (1986-89) Stanko Radmilović (1989)

Members ex officio as Secretaries of Republic and JNA Central Committees	Milan Uzelac (1986-88) Abdulah Mutapčić (1988-89) Nijaz Duraković (1989-90) Stanko Stojčević (1986-89) Azem Vllasi (1986-88) Kaqusha Jashari (1988) Remzi Kolgeci (1988-89) Rrahman Morina (1989-90) Jakov Lazarovski (1986-89) Petar Gošev (1989-90) Miljan Radović (1986-89) Veselin Vukotić (1989) Milica Pejanović-Đurišić (1989) Momir Bulatović (1989-90) Slobodan Milošević (1986-89) Bogdan Trifunović (1989-90) Milan Kučan Đorđe Stojšić (1986-88) Milovan Šogorov (1988) Boško Kovačević (1988-89) Nedeljko Šipovac (1989-90) Georgije Jovičić (1986-1988)

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