Veton Surroi (born 17 July 1961) is a popular Kosovo Albanian

Albanians in Kosovo

Albanians are the largest ethnic group in Kosovo . According to the 1991 Serbian census, boycotted by Albanians, there were 1,596,072 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo or 81.6% of population...

 publicist and politician. Surroi is the founder and former leader of the ORA reformist political party, and was a member of Kosovo

Kosovo

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 assembly from 2004 to 2008. Veton Surroi in 1997 established one of the biggest Kosovo Albanian daily newspapers Koha Ditore

Koha Ditore

Koha Ditore is the leading daily newspaper from Kosovo. It is published by Koha Group and was founded and owned by politician Veton Surroi. His sister Flaka Surroi is now the publisher, following Veton Surroi's launch of his political career within the ORA reformist party...

and was the editor-in-chief for a number of years before deciding to enter politics in Kosovo. Surroi's father, Rexhai Surroi

Rexhai Surroi

Rexhai Surroi , was the father of Veton Surroi and a journalist, diplomat and writer. He was a member of the first cohort of students to have finished high school in Albanian language in the former Yugoslavia in 1947/48...

, was one of the very few Albanians to become ambassadors of the former Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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. His father was the Yugoslav ambassador to Spain and a number of Latin America

Latin America

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n countries. As a result, Surroi spent a part of his life in the Spanish speaking

Hispanophone

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 world where he was also educated.

Veton Surroi has a degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico

National Autonomous University of Mexico

The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...

 (UNAM). Surroi speaks several languages, including: Albanian

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

, English

English language

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, Serbian

Serbian language

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 and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

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External links

• Veton Surroi Short biography and interviews, in Albanian
  Albanian language
  Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...
  
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