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Teuta Sahatqija (born 15 April ) is a politician and diplomat in Kosovo. She has served three terms in the Assembly of Kosovo, initially with the Reformist Party ORA, which she led from to , and later with the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).

She was Consul General for the Republic of Kosovo in New York City from to

Early life and career

Sahatqija was born to a Kosovo Albanian family in Gjakova, in what was then the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija in the People's Republic of Serbia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.

She graduated from the University of Pristina in as an electronics engineer. Sahatqija worked at the Printeus computer centre in Prizren from to and was head of the Ereniku centre in Gjakova from to She worked in information technology with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in –99 and oversaw her own business in the same fi