Ali Kryeziu

Ali Kryeziu is the first and current diplomatic charge-de-affairs of the Republic of Kosovo in the United Nations. He was recently proposed by the Government and accredited by the President of Kosovo. [ [http://xs4.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2008&mm=08&dd=27&nav_id=53013 "Kosovo appoints first ambassadors"] "B92.net" 27 August 2008 Link accessed 27/08/09] [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/29/content_9731608.htm "Kosovo gov't appoints first batch of senior diplomats"] "xinhuanet.com" 29 August 2008 Link accessed 29/08/08] Kryeziu has a western affiliated, central-right-wing political ideology, with a strong commitment for the family, education and ethics. He considers diplomacy an art-matter, while uses it for material functions. He is married to Fadile Kryeziu, and they have two sons. They live in Pristina and New York. His sense of duty in New York is to get the UN membership for the country that he diplomatically represents.

History

Mr. Kryeziu was born in 1950 in Yugoslavia, and is a successor of an aristocratic Albanian family, with a political dimension from the epoch of the Ottoman Empire. Mr. Kryeziu was educated in the light of western political affiliations since he was a child, and due to that, he became a deeply-furnished dedicated scholar westerly motivated. His primary political ideas were with reference to the modernisation and transformations in the regime of his country.

Ali Kryeziu took a law degree in 1974, while he was making his first intellectual and diplomatic steps towards his career. Just after that he started to specialise in the international law scholarship. Being suitable to that dedication he was immediately after his studies employed as a legal consular in the Government of Kosovo in 1975, and in the meantime he got equipped for entering the ambassadorial troop of the country. In 1978, Kryeziu became an essential part of the Diplomatic Mission of the Former Yugoslav Republic in the United Nations. He exercised this duty until 1981. During the diplomatic service in New York, as a diplomat of good feature, he started to influence westerly the Yugoslav mission, and began to oppose the socialist ruling in Yugoslavia.

Very soon after that, immediately after getting back in his country, he was persecuted by the socialist regime, under the cause for influencing and spreading a western democratic ideology over the segments of policy-making institutions in the former Yugoslavia. Due to that he was accused and found guilty for helping the Albania national issue, and linking it with the western diplomatic bases. He was held in prison for five years, as part of the Intellectuals Group, who altogether were convicted about their intentions for opening the fatherland to the west.

After being held in a socialist regime top-security prison, Kryeziu continued his years without being involved in the public life. Presently after that he became an Attorney-at-law, and a member of the bar. He started to concentrate in international insurance law, and due to that became the Vice President of the International Claims Company for the SEE region, whilst, after some considerable time, he was appointed the CEO of the Adriatic Insurance Group, a position that he held until the end of 2002. From 2002, Kryeziu was appointed a sole legal barrister for the AIG International Group in South Eastern Europe.

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