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BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic has said that the incident which took place at the football match between Serbia and Albania in Belgrade on Tuesday was a premeditated political provocation, and added that Serbia bears no responsibility for match abandonment.

EU mission in Kosovo has new chief

PRIŠTINA -- Italy's Gabriele Meucci has been appointed as the new head of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, it was announced on Friday.

Meucci will take over the duty from Bernd Borhart on October 15 and his mandate will last until June 14, 2015.

PRISTINA - Italia's Gabriele Meucci has been appointed as the new EULEX chief, the EU Mission in Kosovo released.

Meucci will take over the duty from Bernd Borhart on October 15 and his mandate will last until June 14, 2015. The decision on his appointment was adopted by the EU Political and Security Committee.

Borhart held office as the EULEX chief since February 1, 2013.

TIRANA - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama will pay a visit to Belgrade on October 22, which will be the first visit of the Albanian prime minister to Serbia in 68 years, Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ditmir Bushati stated on Friday.

The Albanian minister's visit was announced earlier by Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

Two surveys by the Tirana-based Institute for Democracy and Mediation, IDM, conducted  between February and March 2013, but yet to be published, show 51 per cent of the public say corruption among police is considerable.

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In the first nine months of 2014, the municipality of Tirana spent more than 20.4 million lek (€145,600) in advertising in several national daily newspapers, while all other municipalities in the country spent a total 3 million lek (€21,400) during the same period. 

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Albania is hoping to tap Chinese money for an important and costly highway to Macedonia, Albanian and Chinese media reported on Wednesday after Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama met Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang at an economic forum in Tianjin.

Rama will be visiting Serbia on October 22, "a final date, following the invitation of Prime Minister [Aleksanadar] Vucic,” he said during the summit of Western Balkan countries in Berlin.

Rama said that he had many things to discuss with Vucic, because Tirana and Belgrade had much potential to cooperate and work together.

BELGRADE - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama will pay an official visit to Serbia in September, which will be the first time an Albanian high official has come to Belgrade in the past 70 years, the Belgrade-based daily Danas reported.

Albanian PM to visit Belgrade in September - daily

BELGRADE -- Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama will pay an official visit to Serbia in September, the Belgrade-based daily Danas has reported.

It will be the first time an Albanian high official has come to Belgrade in the past 70 years, added the paper.