Bujanovac

Albanian President Bujar Nishani arrived in Bujanovac shortly after noon on Tuesday, marking the start of his one-day visit to Bujanovac and Presevo.

Nishani was greeted in front of the municipal building by Mayor of Bujanovac Saip Kamberi and Mayor of Bujanova Jonuz Musliu, who is also president of the National Council of Albanians in Serbia.

President Bujar Nishani on Tuesday became the first Albanian head of state to visit Serbia since Communist dictator Enver Hoxha in 1948.

Nishani visited Bujanovac and Presevo, two municipalities in the south of Serbia where the majority of people are ethnic Albanians, but did not meet any Serbian state officials and got a frosty reaction from politicians in Belgrade.

Albanian President Bujar Nishani arrived in Bujanovac shortly after noon on Tuesday, marking the start of his one-day visit to Bujanovac and Presevo.

Nishani was greeted in front of the municipal building by Mayor of Bujanovac Saip Kamberi and Mayor of Bujanova Jonuz Musliu, who is also president of the National Council of Albanians in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development Mladen Sarcevic spoke with the director of the Hague-based Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Henrik Villadsen, who stated that he values the cooperation with Serbia in the field of education of national minorities.

BELGRADE - Making Serbia's ethnic Albanians a part of the parliamentary majority is the fundamental issue, the leader of the ethnic Albanian Party for Democratic Action Riza Halimi said Monday after consultations with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on the new government.

The security situation in the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja is stable, according to the president of the government's coordinating body.

Speaking on Monday, Zoran Stankovic said there were "no indications" the situation might deteriorate.

The police have brought in ten individuals on suspicion that they shouted slogans 'Murder and slay so a Serb is no more!' in Bujanovac on Sunday.

The police in Vranje are conducting an investigation into ethnic Albanians chanting slogans marked with outbursts of ethnic hatred.

The police and the Higher Prosecutor's Office in Vranje are conducting an investigation into ethnic Albanians chanting slogans marked with outbursts of ethnic hatred and intolerance in Bujanovac, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Monday.

Representatives of five ethnic Albanian parties in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja on Saturday set up an association of these southern Serbian municipalities.

They said that the goal was to ensure that ethnic Albanians in this part of Serbia are granted the same rights as are guaranteed to the Serbs in the Community Serb municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo and Metohija, Tanjug reported.

Around 23,000 refugees are expected to arrive in the Presevo area, southern Serbia, from Macedonia this week.

This was announced on Friday by the head of the Coordination body for Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, Zoran Stankovic.