Albania

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.

EU spokesperson: Visit significant step forward

BRUSSELS -- Albanian PM Edi Rama's visit and meeting with Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vučić is a significant step forward in the relations between the two countries.

This is what Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson for EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, has stated.

Rama salutes group displaying Greater Albania map

BELGRADE -- On his way back to Albania from southern Serbia, Albanian PM Edi Rama traveled through Kosovo where he stopped to salute a group carrying a Greater Albania map.

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.

Minister: Drone incident "caused by Albanian citizen"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović said late on Monday that the football stadium drone incident on Oct. 14 was caused by "an Albanian citizen."

The incident happened in Belgrade during a Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifier, and the drone carried a map showing "Greater Albania".

President says he refused to meet with Rama

BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić's office said late on Monday that he had refused to receive visiting Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.

The reason is that "provocations were to be expected from him," a statement said.

Albanian PM denies expansionist ambitions

BELGRADE -- "Our project is a Greater Europe with Serbia and Albania. A Greater Albania is an obsolete myth that has nothing to do with us," Albanian PM Edi Rama has said.

What has been described as a historic visit turned into a diplomatic row on Monday when Albania's Prime Minister said in Belgrade that Serbia must recognize Kosovo's independence.

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BELGRADE - Serbia marks the World War I Armistice Day as its national holiday on Tuesday. The day commemorates Germany's capitulation that led to the cessation of WWI hostilities. The capitulation was signed in a railway carriage in Compiegne, France, on November 11, 1918 at 11:00 a.m.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade-based NGO Forum for Ethnic Relations organized a roundtable on Serbia-Albania cooperation on Monday evening, with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama as a guest.

Dusan Janjic, director of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, said during the discussion that "the ghosts of the past should not trip the living up on their road to the future."