News Center- Yesterday, Kosovo's parliament appointed Vjosa Osmani, candidate of the ruling Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) party as the country's new president. On Sunday the 120-seat parliament voted in favor of appointing Osmani president by 71 votes.

Vjosa Osmani took over as acting president of Kosovo last November when Hashim Thaci, resigned ahead of his impending war crimes trial in the Netherlands.

“We aim at normalizing ties”

After being elected as the new president of Kosovo, Osmani made a speech and she called for a dialogue aimed at normalizing ties with Serbia but said Belgrade must first apologize and prosecute those responsible for war crimes committed during the 1998-99 war that ultimately led to Kosovo becoming independent in 2008. She is a female law professor and she speaks English, Turkish, Spanish, and Serbian in addition to Albanian.