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Rexhai Surroi was a Yugoslav Albanian journalist, diplomat and writer....
Rexhai Surroi (Serbian: Реџаји Суроји, Redžaji Suroji) (8 June — 22 December ) was a Yugoslav Albanian journalist, diplomat and writer.
Who was Rexhai Surroi?
Rexhai Surroi was a Kosovar 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.
He graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School. He was also one of the few Kosovans to become ambassadors of Yugoslavia. He was the father of Veton and Flaka Surroi.
He was an activefootballplayerbeforebecomingjournalist and editor of weekly "Zani i Rinis".
Veton Surroi (born 17 July ) is a Kosovar Albanian publicist, politician and former journalist.He was an editor in Radio Pristina, where he becamedirector in the mid-sixties. In 1969/70, he served as vice-president of the provincialgovernment of SAP Kosovo, he was one of the most ferventadvocates for the establishment of the University of Pristina, the only in Yugoslaviawhere the medium of instruction was Albanian.
In 1971, he was appointedambassador of Yugoslavia to Bolivia and from 1974-1977 he held the post of assistantsecretary in the FederalSecretariat of Foreign Affairs. From 1977 to 1981