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Veton Surroi

Veton Surroi is a journalist and writer from Prishtina and the founder of the daily Koha Ditore. In the 1990s he was one of the independent voices of Kosovo Albanian civil society, and in 1999 he was a member of the Kosovo Albanian delegation at the Rambouillet talks. After the war he became involved in politics and public debate.

Living person — personal information is deliberately limited.

Source basis

Academic monographs on the war and diplomacy; public roles only.

Man in a blue shirt seated at a table with a microphone and a name card reading “Veton Surroi”.
Veton Surroi at a School of Politics event, 21 June 2015.Photo: Arianit · 2015-06-21 · CC BY-SA 4.0

As a journalist and publisher, Surroi represented an independent voice between the LDK and representatives of the KLA; his presence at Rambouillet illustrates the broad political composition of the Albanian delegation [1] [2].

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)

Sources

  1. [1]Tim Judah. Kosovo: War and Revenge. Yale University Press, 2000. https://books.google.com/books/about/Kosovo.html?id=TDmwQgAACAAJ. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. [2]David L. Phillips. Liberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and U.S. Intervention. The MIT Press, 2012-07-20. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9590.001.0001. Accessed 2026-09-16.

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