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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 PRISTINA 000187 
 
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TAGS: KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK PHUM SOCI KWMN
SUBJECT: KOSOVO'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN 
 
REF: A. STATE 202341 
     ¶B. PRISTINA 169 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED, PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 
 
¶1.   (SBU) Post has identified the five most influential 
women in the Kosovo, per Ref A, as well as three Kosovo women 
who are influential among their respective minority 
communities. Political officer Heidi Barrachina is POC for 
women's issues at post: (381) 38-549-516 x3104; 
barrachinahh@state.gov. 
 
FIVE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN KOSOVO 
 
¶2.  (SBU) The five most influential women in Kosovo: 
 
Name: Flaka Surroi 
Title and Institution: President of the Koha Group, which 
publishes Kosovo's highest circulation daily newspaper "Koha 
Ditore." 
Background: In the 90's she served as an activist with the 
Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms, then 
later contributed to postwar reconstruction as head of one of 
Kosovo's most successful NGOs - the Kosovo Community Fund. 
Contact Information: Email: flaka@koha.net.  Address: Sheshi 
Nene Tereza No. 31 A; 10 000 Pristina, Kosovo.  Tel: (381) 
38-249-104; (381) 38-243-875. Mobile: (377) 44-506-426. 
 
Name: Jeta Xharra 
Title and Institution: Kosovo Director of the Balkan 
Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and moderator of the 
popular weekly television debate program "Jeta ne Kosove" 
(Life in Kosovo). 
Background: Xharra was a youth activist before the 1999 war, 
and then went on to become a journalist with Koha Ditore and 
then the BBC.  She later completed a masters degree in the 
UK.  Contact Information: Email: jeta@birn.eu.com.  Web: 
http://kosovo.birn.eu.com.  Address: Sheshi Nena Tereze 22B 
No. 6; 10 000 Pristina, Kosovo.  Tel/fax: (381) 38-228-168. 
Mobile: (377) 44-135-209. 
 
Name: Pranvera Dobruna 
Title and Institution: Managing Director of the Kosovo Energy 
Corporation (KEK), the largest public utility in (and 
possibly the largest publicly-owned enterprise) in Kosovo. 
Background: Energy is major political, economic and 
development issue in Kosovo, and Dobruna is directly involved 
and influential in all aspects of energy policy, including 
the unbundling of the energy sector and the possible 
privatization of Kosovo's largest state-owned enterprise. 
Contact Information: Email: pranvera.dobruna@kek-energy.com. 
Address: Mother Theresa Street, No. 36; Toscana Building; 10 
000 Pristina, Kosovo.  Telephone: (381) 38-228-684.  Mobile: 
(377) 44-505-895. 
 
Name: Major General Atifete Jahjaga 
Title and Institution: Assistant Commissioner for the Border 
Security and Boundary Police section of the Kosovo Police 
Service (KPS). 
Background: A key leader in the KPS, Jahjaga has worked 
tirelessly to promote the democratization of the police 
force.  She was the first Kosovo woman to become an a 
Lieutenant General and then Assistant Commissioner; and the 
first KPS officer to be accepted to the FBI Academy in 
Quantico, Virginia. 
Contact Information: Email: atifetejahjaga@gmail.com. 
Address: Luan Haradinaj Street, 10 000 Pristina, Kosovo. 
Telephone: (381) 38-50-80-1060.  Mobile: (377) 44-505-222. 
 
Name: Mimoza Kusari 
Title and Institution: Executive Director of Kosovo's 
American Chamber of Commerce. 
Background: Seen as the voice of the Kosovo business 
community, Kusari has had a direct influence on the 
government's economic and foreign investment policies. 
Contact Information: Email: mimoza.kusari@amchamksv.org. 
 
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Address: Gustav Major Street, No. 6; 10 000 Pristina, Kosovo. 
 Telephone: (381) 38-246-012.  Mobile: (377) 44-540-018. 
 
INFLUENTIAL WOMEN AMONG KOSOVO'S MINORITY COMMUNITIES 
 
¶3.  (SBU) Given the complex and sensitive inter-ethnic 
situation in Kosovo, post would like to add the following as 
influential women from among Kosovo's minority communities. 
 
Name: Vesna Jovanovic 
Title and Institution:  Member of the Kosovo Assembly and of 
the moderate Serbian List for Kosovo and Metohija (SLKM). 
Background: A proactive and moderate Kosovo Serb politician 
who has successfully advocated for her community of Partes to 
become a new Serb-majority municipality, and who is closely 
involved in the attempts to establish a new moderate Kosovo 
Serb Assembly that seeks greater engagement with Kosovo 
institutions, the international community and with the 
majority Kosovo Albanian population (Ref B). 
Contact Information: Email: vesnajovanovic 722004@yahoo.com. 
Address: Partes village, Gnjilane municipality, Kosovo. 
Telephone: (377) 44-248-056; (381) 63-8751-751. 
 
Name: Nadira Avdic-Vllasi 
Title and Institution: Editor-in-Chief of the Bosnian 
language programming section of the public broadcaster Radio 
Television Kosovo (RTK); editor in chief of Bosnian language 
Alem magazine. 
Background: In addition to her role with minority media, 
Avdic-Vllasi is one of the organizers of the Kosovo Bosniak 
Forum, a civil society organization that enables Bosniaks to 
engage on political issues that will affect them. 
Contact Information: Email: navllasi@yahoo.com.  Address: 
Hajdar Dushi 1A No. 9; 10 000 Pristina, Kosovo.  Telephone: 
(381) 38 2409 669.  Mobile: (377) 44 185 100. 
 
Name: Hiljmnijeta Apuk 
Title and Institution: Director and founder of the NGO 
"Little People of Kosovo," representing the disabled. 
District Financial Officer, Kosovo ministry of health. 
Editor in Chief of the Kosovo newspaper for persons with 
disabilities. 
Background: Represented Kosovo at the UN General Assembly's 
International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the 
Rights and Dignities of persons with disabilities in 2006. 
Longtime activist supporting rights for the disabled, both in 
Kosovo and in the former Yugoslavia. 
Contact Information: Email: hiljmnijetaa@yahoo.com.  Web: 
www.lpkosova.com.  Telephone: (381) 28-30-814; (381) 
28-24-670.  Mobile: (377) 44-293-518. 
 
¶4.  (U)  Post does not clear this message for release to UN 
Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari. 
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