Visit of Albanian PM postponed for Nov. 10

Visit of Albanian PM postponed for Nov. 10

BELGRADE -- The official visit of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, scheduled originally for October 22, has been postponed for November 10.

This has been announced by the Serbian government.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić spoke on Sunday on the phone with Rama and a statement said that they "agreed that incidents at the stadium in Belgrade during the Serbia-Albania football game were in their essence very unfortunate."

The game last Tuesday was abandoned after a small remotely operated craft carrying a Greater Albania map was flown above the pitch, causing unrest.

"There are still obvious disagreements about how the incident occurred, but we must not and we will not miss the opportunity to meet and work on maintaining regional stability," Vučić and Rama were quoted as saying.

They also said that it was "time to turn a new page in political and economic relations," and that it was "necessary to continue the dialogue and process stated in Berlin on August 28, because it will enable improvement of relations between the two countries, the region and the whole Europe."

On Friday, Rama took to Twitter and posted that "A normal Serbia will be possible if a realistic Serbia realizes that their nightmare of a Greater Albania is not our project!"

The Greater Albania map flown last week at the stadium in Belgrade showed Albania expanded to include territories of its neighboring countries: Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, and Montenegro.

Vučić shortly afterwards posted a tweet of his own: "People who say that a Greater Albania is our nightmare are absolutely right. But it's not only our nightmare, it's a nightmare for Europe,...