Presevo

BELGRADE - Serbia has a total of 147,604 Roma people, making up 2.05 percent of the population, according to a study titled Roma People in Serbia, by Svetlana Radovanovic and Aleksandar Knezevic of the Faculty of Geography in Belgrade.

The study was done based on data from the census conducted by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia in 2011.

PRESEVO - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has said that there is no reason for ethnic Albanians in the Presevo Valley to have fewer rights than Serbs in northern Kosovo.

Rama says Albanians "won't be assimilated"

PREŠEVO -- Albanian PM Edi Rama said in Preševo that ethnic Albanians who live in municipalities in southern Serbia have less rights than Serbs in Kosovo.

Albanian PM wants to be given key to Belgrade - report

BELGRADE -- Albanian PM Edi Rama has sent a plan of his visit to Serbia according to which he should be given the key to the city of Belgrade.

This is what the daily Politika is reporting on Wednesday.

"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.