Agim Çeku | |
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Minister of Security Forces of Kosovo | |
In office 22 February 2011 – 9 December 2014 |
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President | Hashim Thaçi |
Prime Minister | Isa Mustafa |
Preceded by | Fehmi Mujota |
Succeeded by | Haki Demolli |
6th Prime Minister of Kosovo | |
In office 10 March 2006 – 9 January 2008 |
|
President | Hashim Thaçi |
Preceded by | Bajram Kosumi |
Succeeded by | Hashim Thaçi |
Personal details | |
Born |
Ćuška near Peć, AD Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia (present day Peja, Kosovo) |
29 October 1960
Political party | None as PM (sponsored by AAK) PSDK Today PDK after PM term |
Religion | Islam |
Agim Çeku (born 29 October 1960) is the Minister of Security Forces for the Republic of Kosovo. He has been Prime Minister of Kosovo and a chief of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). He was born in the village of Qyshk near Pejë, in the Yugoslav Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (1946-1974) (present-day Kosovo).
Çeku is an ethnic Albanian who served as an officer in the Croatian Army during the Croatian War of Independence against the breakaway Republic of Serbian Krajina, and was military commander of the KLA during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War, and then commanded the Kosovo Protection Corps under the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo.
After Agim Çeku finished the secondary military school in Belgrade, he attended the Zadar Military Academy. Shortly afterwards, he joined the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) as an artillery captain. In 1991 the Yugoslav wars broke out and he deserted from the JNA and joined the Croatian National Guard, when the Republic of Croatia found itself at war in breaking away from Yugoslavia.