Foreign ministers of Albania

The State Department announced on Monday that businessman and politician Tom Doshi, one of the wealthiest MPs in the Albanian parliament, has been barred from entering the US, along with his immediate family.

The State Department alleged in a statement that Doshi's ban was "due to his involvement in significant corruption".

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's official visit to Albania, where he was scheduled to meet his counterpart Edi Rama, has been postponed until after Greek Orthodox Easter, with no precise dates released as yet.

Albania President Ilir Meta on Friday met parliament's foreign affairs committee, seeking more talks on the government's request for authorization to negotiate a new maritime border deal with Greece.

President Ilir Meta on Tuesday refused to provide the authorisation for further talks with Greece to resolve the sea border disagreement, demanding further information on what and how the government will negotiate.

"The request doesn't clearly define the object of negotiations for which the authorisation is requested," Meta said in a statement.

The US State Department on Wednesday announced that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had "designated" Adriatik Llalla, 49, and his family as corrupt foreign officials, thereby banning Llalla from entering the country.

Two former directors of the Albanian Road Authority are among 11 people arrested by an Elbasan court order over the procurement of a road that was never properly built.

Dashamir Xhika, former director of the Authority between 2013 and 2017, was arrested and accused of abuse of office.

He arrived there on Thursday on an unannounced visit, Tanjug is reporting.

The agency cites Macedonia's MIA, which recalled that the United States recently rejected Haradinaj's visa application.

Albania's two main opposition parties announced on Monday that they intend to bring down Edi Rama's centre-left government through united protests.

As a protest against the election of a new chief prosecutor by ruling Socialists, opposition MPs threw smoke bombs in the Albanian parliament, reports actualno. 

Albanian President Ilir Meta will be in Serbia on December 3 and 4 on "an unofficial visit" to the Medvedja municipality.

The Beta agency is reporting on Thursday that it received confirmation of this from the local government in that southern town.