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

Meta will be staying at the Gejzer Hotel in Sijarinska Banja, and during his visit to Medvedja, he will meet with municipal councilors and municipal officials from the ethnic Albanian community.

The news website Presheva Jone (Our Preshevo) will soon launch a newspaper in Albanian under the same name with a daily circulation of 1,000 copies, Serbian website Juzne vesti (Southern News) reported on Monday.

The bodies of two miners were discovered on Monday around 23:00 hours CET in a pit of the Lece mine, near Medvedja, in southern Serbia.

The daily Vecernje Novosti reported this on Tuesday.

31-year-old miner Martin Vasilevski died overnight in the Lece gold mine near the town of Medvedja, Beta agency was able to confirm on Friday.

The Medvedja municipality president, Nenad Arsic, said the accident happened an hour after midnight when a rock collapsed onto the miner.

Rama says Albanians "won't be assimilated"

PREŠEVO -- Albanian PM Edi Rama said in Preševo that ethnic Albanians who live in municipalities in southern Serbia have less rights than Serbs in Kosovo.

Bujanovac to become "university town"

BELGRADE -- The planned construction of a Faculty of Economics building in Bujanovac, southern Serbia, will make the town "a university town."

It will also "create conditions for economic development and political stability in the area," the signatories of an agreement to construct the facility have said.

Ethnic Albanian party "willing to work with new govt."

BELGRADE -- Riza Halimi says his Party of Democratic Action is interested in becoming a direct actor in solving the problems of Albanians in southern Serbia.

BELGRADE - Zoran Stankovic, chairman of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, congratulated on Tuesday the Albanian national minority and the Party for Democratic Action led by Riza Halimi on their electoral success, underlining that voting in elections is the right way to improve the life of people in southern Serbia.

BELGRADE - The Party for Democratic Action (PDD), which has won two seats in the Serbian parliament, will not turn away from the talks on its participation in the new government, says Saip Kamberi, official of the political party gathering ethnic Albanians from the south of central Serbia.

BELGRADE - Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Peter Burkhard urged on Thursday members of the Albanian community in southern Serbia to vote in early parliamentary elections that will be held on March 16.