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of Kosovo in 2001. He was an influential parliamentarian in the LDK, the party of former Kosovo
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broke out in 1998. Accusations of widespread abuse by government forces towards ethnic
Albanians in 1999 ignited the second part of the war in which NATO forces unleashed a bombing campaign against the government. The war ended in mid-1999, and Kosovo was placed under a UN Protectorate of autonomy
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He has published a number of works in the field of the legal, historical, and legal-constitutional studies and other areas. Sejdiu has been a professor at the
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Alexandar Botsan-Kharchenko). After this process of negotiations, Kosovo declared independence. Sejdiu participated in final drafting of text of Declaration of Independence of Kosovo, and also is the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
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