Bujanovac

Bujanovac to become "university town"

BELGRADE -- The planned construction of a Faculty of Economics building in Bujanovac, southern Serbia, will make the town "a university town."

It will also "create conditions for economic development and political stability in the area," the signatories of an agreement to construct the facility have said.

Jonuz Musliu, president of the mainly ethnic Albanian town of Bujanovac in southern Serbia, said that ethnic Albanian parts of Serbia should have a right to join Kosovo, now that the ethnically Russian Crimean region had joined Russia.

"Serbian municipalities should join Albania and Kosovo"

BELGRADE -- A leader of ethnic Albanians in the south has said that "if Russia can annex Crimea" southern Serbian municipalities should be given the right to join Kosovo.

According to reports, Jonuz Musliu spoke about the municipalities of Preševo and Bujanovac "uniting with Albania and Kosovo."

BELGRADE - A statement by Jonuz Musliju, leader of the Movement for Democratic Progress (PDP), that if Russia annexed Crimea, the municipalities of Presevo and Bujanovac should be given the right to join Kosovo, poses a threat to the territorial integrity of Serbia, warns Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia's outgoing government's minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija (KIM).

BELGRADE - Zoran Stankovic, chairman of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, congratulated on Tuesday the Albanian national minority and the Party for Democratic Action led by Riza Halimi on their electoral success, underlining that voting in elections is the right way to improve the life of people in southern Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Friday he hoped the coming snap parliamentary poll would be conducted better than the last one, because irregularities with the electoral roll had been cleared.

BELGRADE - Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Peter Burkhard urged on Thursday members of the Albanian community in southern Serbia to vote in early parliamentary elections that will be held on March 16.

BUJANOVAC - The Party for Democratic Action (PDA), which gathers ethnic Albanians from southern Serbia, has decided to take part in the early parliamentary elections scheduled for March 16.

Chair of the PDA Bujanovac municipal committee Saip Kamberi confirmed for Tanjug that PDA wishes to test its strength in the elections and hopes to win at least one MP seat.