Kosovo president visits Arizona State University

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Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu received the first Distinguished Global Leadership Award on Monday night for his leadership achievements in bridging cultural gaps on an international level.

Sejdiu was honored for his contributions to the “process that evolved, eventually, in the birth of a nation,” said Anthony “Bud” Rock, vice president for Global Engagement at ASU. Rock presented the award to Sejdiu, who was elected president of Kosovo in 2006 and is the country’s only president since declaring independence from Serbia in February 2008, in front of nearly 300 people in the Arizona Room of the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus.

The award was created to honor international leaders and friends of the University who have raised global awareness as a result of their time on campus and in their post-university work, Rock said.