Preševo Valley

The newly elected mayor of Presevo, an ethnic Albanian majority municipality in south Serbia, Ardita Sinani, says Belgrade is deleting the addresses of citizens in her municipality in a silent process of ethnic cleansing.

As a political representative of ethnic Albanians in Serbia, Shaip Kamberi never had it easy.

It got a whole lot harder, however, when an election last year yielded a parliament dominated by the party of President Aleksandar Vucic and its allies, leaving Kamberi and his five Albanian and Bosniaks colleagues as the only opposition MPs in the 250-seat assembly.

He pointed out that this will happen if the dialogue process does not end with an agreement on mutual recognition.
After a meeting with political representatives of Albanians from the south of central Serbia, Hoti said that Pristina has the right to retaliate against Belgrade for every measure that, as it claims, Belgrade applies, Voice of America reports.

In a conversation with daily "Danas", he points out that Albanians from the Presevo Valley want to be an active participant in the talks on the status of Kosovo.

Kosovo MPs on Monday debated Hashim Thaci's draft resolution which proposed that the Albanian-majority municipalities of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac in the Presevo Valley area of southern Serbia should unite with Kosovo.

On his Facebook profile, he announced the facsimile of the resolution proposal that he yesterday submitted to the MPs, pertaining to the issue of annexing so-called Presevo Valley to Kosovo, which the MPs hadn't even taken into consideration.

Thaci said stated that this agreement "should give all parties a sense of victory - not only Kosovo, but also Serbia and the international community."

In an interview for the Pristina-based daily Epoke e Re, he reiterated that "the key point of the agreement is the recognition of Kosovo's independence by Belgrade" and also "the UN chair" for Pristina.

Mustafa is the new President of the Albanian Minority National Council in Serbia.

"Presevo valley" is the informal name for a region in the southern part of central Serbia that has ethnic Albanian minorities in three of its largest towns: Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja.

Stankovic categorically claims that a war in this area will not happen, in spite of "constant announcements" to the contrary.

The head of the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans' Organisation, Hysni Gucati, told Kosova Press news agency on Tuesday that former KLA guerrillas agree that the Albanian-majority Presevo Valley area of Serbia should become part of Kosovo, but that they oppose giving any land to Serbia in return.