Albania

During his visit to Washington, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic promised that Belgrade will solve the 1999 murders of three American-Albanian brothers who fought for the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Serbia and Albania will sign a protocol for the construction of a EUR 1 B motorway that will link Nis with the Adriatic port of Durres, Serbia's Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Zorana Mihajlovic said on Saturday.

The US government has praised Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and his Albanian counterpart Edi Rama for trying to move on from the conflicts of the past toward a new era of friendship and cooperation in the Balkans.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that the positions of Serbia and Albania on Kosovo are very much different.

But he added that he will not allow this wide gap to eliminate the possibility of overcoming past differences.

Sonja Licht said on Thursday that PM Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Tirana will be written in the history of Serbian-Albanian relations.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in Albania on Thursday that "regional countries must work on joint infrastructure projects and seek support from the EU."

He was addressing "Tirana Talks" of the Vienna Economic Forum, where prime ministers of Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and also Kosovo are taking part.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and his Albanian counterpart Edi Rama agreed to disagree on Kosovo and sought closer cooperation between their countries.

This happened at the meeting of the two leaders on Wednesday, which is part of the two-day visit of Vucic to Tirana, Tanjug news agency reports.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that his visit to Albania, where he met with top officials, was "good for the future of the two peoples and countries."

Misa Djurkovic of the Institute for European Studies has told B92 that Albania is "not well-intenetioned" toward Serbia.

Relations between Albania and Greece took another turn for the worse on Wednesday after the neighboring country?s Prime Minister Edi Rama called on Athens to renegotiate its maritime borders with Tirana.