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'''Jusuf Zejnullahu''' (born 9 February 1944)<ref>[https://rulers.org/indexz.html Index Z]</ref> is a former [[Kosovo|Kosovar]] politician.

==Background and early life==

Zejnullahu was born in [[Democratic Federal Yugoslavia]]. He was active in Kosovo politics throughout the 1980s, and occupied a number of important economic positions within the [[SAP Kosovo]] autonomic province and [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] as a whole. On 14 April 1989 he was elected a member of the [[Central Committee of the 13th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia|Central Committee]] and the [[Presidency of the 13th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia]] from Kosovo.

==Prime Minister of Kosovo==

On 4 December 1989 Zejnullahu was elected [[Prime Minister of Kosovo|Prime Minister]] (Chairman of the Executive Council) of the [[Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo]], then part of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]].

On 3 April 1990 he and a number of other ethnic Albanian members of the Provincial Executive Council, including one of the two vice-premiers, offered their resignations, in protest at [[Slobodan Milošević]]’s [[Anti-bureaucratic revolution|measures]] in the region, and the handling of the separatist unrest by the local [[Communist Party of Kosovo]].

At the 23 May session the Kosovo Assembly rejected these resignations, and the officials continued in their posts.

===Declaration of Secession===

Zejnullahu was later involved in the declaration of secession of July 2, 1990, after which Kosovo's Assembly and Executive Council were dissolved. He was later designated Prime Minister-in-exile of Kosovo's shadow provincial government, and arrested for his pro-independence activities.

==Emigration to the United States==

In 1999 he emigrated to the [[United States]], where he remains.<ref>[http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/19/Northpinellas/Former_Kosovar_leader.shtml Former Kosovar leader rejoices from afar], ''[[St. Petersburg Times]]'', February 19, 2008</ref>

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