Greater Albania

Thaci told a press conference on Wednesday that he "only meant adding the Presevo valley to Kosovo" when he spoke about "correcting the borders."

And at the same time, "there would be no partition of Kosovo nor autonomy for Kosovo Serbs," he said.

Dusan Prorokovic from the Institute for International Politics and Economy said this on Thursday, adding that the self-proclaimed state and Albania have signed more than ten "bilateral agreements" since 2009.

The Serbian Orthodox Church said on Monday that its top bishop in Montenegro, Amfilohije, was prevented by a group of mainly ethnic Albanian residents of the village of Svac, near the coastal town of Ulcinj, from holding a service at the ruins of a medieval church.

The governing body for Swiss football has dismissed as baseless reports in the Serbian media that Russia had urged the Swiss Football Federation to ban "Greater Albania" or Kosovo flags and symbols during Friday's match between Switzerland and Serbia in Kaliningrad.

Chepurin said this on Wednesday, adding that Moscow will support this solution if Serbia thinks it is best.

The diplomat spoke for Belgrade media, commenting on Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic's statement that "Albanians would accept a partition of Kosovo - if we sat down and spoke without their mentors."

As Dacic told reporters at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday, "this is nothing new, but something that has been happening for a number of decades and centuries - the desire to establish a Greater Albania."

The OSCE mission in Kosovo said it wants renewed efforts to uncover the truth behind the kidnappings, murders and disappearances of Serb and ethnic Albanian journalists connected to the 1999 war.

As some Serbian and Kosovo politicians mull swapping territories between the two countries, members of the the ethnic Albanian minority in southern Serbia say they would rather see both countries inside the EU.

"This is not something new. This is a story that circles both in southern Serbia and Kosovo," Nedzad Beljulji, the owner of TV Spectra in Bujanovac, in southern Serbia, said.

The speaker of Macedonian parliament, Talat Xhaferi, has told BIRN's TV show Jeta ne Kosove'that if President Gjorge Ivanov again refuses to sign the new language law, after parliament voted for it for a second time, he will breach his constitutional rights.

A witness told a Belgrade court how Serbian forces rounded up all the ethnic Albanian men in the Kosovo village of Cuska in May 1999, then looted and torched their houses.