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LDK · Demokratski savez Kosova — 1989 –

Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK)

A political party founded in Prishtina on 23 December 1989, chaired by Ibrahim Rugova. Throughout the 1990s it was the dominant political force among Kosovo Albanians and led the strategy of peaceful resistance: boycotting Serbian institutions, organizing parallel institutions in education and health care, holding the parallel elections of 1992 and seeking international support. After the war it remained one of Kosovo's main parties.

Photographs

French château with turrets and a flower garden in front.
The Château de Rambouillet in France, the venue of the Kosovo talks in February 1999. Photograph taken in 2021.Photo: Trougnouf (Benoit Brummer) · 2021-09-04 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Civilian and military officials seated around a conference table.
NATO Secretary General Javier Solana meets US Secretary of Defense William Cohen at the Pentagon on 15 March 1999. They discussed NATO's reaction should Yugoslavia refuse to sign the peace agreement worked out in Rambouillet.Photo: Robert D. Ward · 1999-03-15 · Domen publik (Public domain)
Bronze statue of a standing man on a plinth inscribed “Fehmi Agani”, in front of a building.
Statue of Fehmi Agani in Pristina, photographed on 13 September 2020.Photo: Arianit · 2020-09-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sources

  1. [1]Noel Malcolm. Kosovo: A Short History. HarperPerennial, New York (botim i përditësuar); botimi i parë: Macmillan, Londër, 1998, 1999. https://archive.org/details/kosovoshorthisto0000malc. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. [2]Miranda Vickers. Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo. Hurst & Company (Londër) / Columbia University Press (New York), 1998.· Awaiting verification
  3. [3]Tim Judah. Kosovo: War and Revenge. Yale University Press, 2000. https://books.google.com/books/about/Kosovo.html?id=TDmwQgAACAAJ. Accessed 2026-09-16.

Editorial status: Awaiting verificationDrafted from the cited sources; not yet fully reviewed by the editors.

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