Kumanovo

Bajram Limani, president of the local branch of the DUI party in Kumanovo, Macedonia, has surrendered to the police.

Limani is a suspect in the murder of Xhemail Rexhepi that took place on Thursday afternoon.

A member of Macedonia's junior ruling ethnic Albanian party, the DUI, was shot dead on Thursday in Kumanovo - scene of a shootout in May between Albanian militants and police.

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic stated that at this point the security situation in Serbia is completely stable with regard to terrorist threats.

"After the attacks in Zvornik (RS) and Kumanovo (Macedonia), we started certain preparations and undertook certain measures, having followed the situation several months prior to the incidents," Stefanovic said late Wednesday.

Kosovo police have arrested Sulejman Osmani, suspected of involvement in the two-day shootout in Kumanovo, Macedonia, in May, and wanted by the authorities in Macedonia.

Kosovo's parliament is to ccompile a report on all previous knowledge possessed by relevant security institutions relating to the "suspicious movements" of Kosovo citizens in Macedonia.

Media reports have claimed that some of the young men arrested or killed in Kumanovo on May 9th were already being investigated by the Kosovo police.

Macedonian opposition leader Zoran Zaev, who heads socialist SDSM, is due in Bulgaria on Friday.

A day earlier his party's website informed of the visit, adding he would meet both leaders of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and state officials.

No schedule of the visit has been made public.

One of the leaders of a group that carried out a terrorist attack in Kumanovo, Macedonia, Beg Rizaj, has been buried in the town of Decani in Kosovo.

The funeral was attended by persons wearing uniforms of the disbanded KLA.

Close relatives of those killed in the shootout in Kumanovo two weeks ago left for Skopje on Thursday with the head of the Kosovo Forensics Institute, Arsim Gerxhaliu, and a forensics team on a mission to recover the bodies.

"Five automobiles and the caskets have left for Skopje with the families and we will try to identify the bodies together," Gerxhaliu told BIRN.

Steinmeier told a joint press conference with his Albanian counterpart, Ditmir Bushati, in Berlin that Albania's call for an international probe was justified.

"Last week's incident scared Europe. We hope the situation will not escalate and the authorities in Macedonia will make efforts towards a full and transparent investigation," he said. 

Several hundred people gathered in Pristina on Wednesday to protest against the way the Kosovo government has reacted to the crisis in Macedonia after the shootings in Kumanovo.

The protesters included family members of the Kosovars who were killed or arrested in the police raid on Kumanovo two weeks ago.