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Albania on Oct. 19 condemned the burning of its flag during a football match in Serbia, the latest in a series of incidents aggravating political tensions between Belgrade and Tirana.

"New Serbia-Albania match to be played on neutral ground"

BELGRADE -- The abandoned European championship qualifier between Serbia and Albania will most likely be played again on neutral ground.

This is what the Belgrade-based daily Večernje Novosti said it learned from a source close to the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).

In a chat show Tema [The Topic], which serves as television bridge for Kosovo and Serbia, on Kosovo public television, contributors from Belgrade and Pristina mulled the violent scenes at the Euro 2016 qualifier in Belgrade's Partizan stadium, after a drone flew over the pitch carrying Albanian symbols.

BELGRADE - The European soccer's governing body UEFA should deal seriously with the abandonment of the Serbia vs Albania match, says Dick Advocaat, the head coach of the Serbian national team, adding that he is proud of the way his players conducted themselves during the incident.

JAGODINA - The incident with the map of Greater Albania, displayed on a banner during the Serbia vs Albania soccer match, is not a provocation, but an attack against Serbia, Dragan Markovic, the leader of United Serbia (JS) - a member of the ruling coalition - said on Thursday.

BRUSSELS - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's visit to Serbia would be welcome despite the recent incidents during a soccer match in Belgrade, Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson of the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, said in Brussels on Thursday.

PARIS - UEFA President Michel Platini said that the situation concerning the European qualifier between Serbia and Albania is not innocuous at all, and posed a question as to what would have happened if the drone flying over the Partizan stadium in Belgrade had carried a bomb instead of a flag.