Preševo

Albanian PM's address was "provocation"

BELGRADE -- Albanian PM Edi Rama said after the talks in Belgrade with Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić that "Preševo is a bridge and Kosovo's independence is a reality."...

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated that the real issue lies in the nature of the messages Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama would send during his forthcoming visit to Serbia and not in the answer to the question as to whether or not he should go to Presevo, municipality in southern Serbia which is home to majority ethnic Albanian pop

"Visit to be planned in coordination with Belgrade"

BELGRADE -- Albania's Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati said on Thursday that the program of Edi Rama's visit would be drawn up in coordination with the Serbian authorities.

This will be done "with mutual respect, trust and by taking advantage of the best practices out there," he said.

Albanian PM's visit "to be good and fruitful"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has said he expects the visit of Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama on November 10 to be "good and fruitful."

Migrants prevented from illegally crossing border

BELGRADE -- Ten migrants from Afghanistan and Syria were on Wednesday prevented from crossing into Serbia illegally, it has been announced.

The migrants were discovered on the Preševo border crossing between Serbia and Macedonia, and in the customs terminal in the town of Kruševac.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic promised on Thursday that Albanian students in Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja, southern part of central Serbia, will get free textbooks in their mother tongue by September 1, but at the same time he called on Albanians to fulfil their obligation toward the Republic of Serbia and start paying their electricity bills.

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.

Jonuz Musliu, president of the mainly ethnic Albanian town of Bujanovac in southern Serbia, said that ethnic Albanian parts of Serbia should have a right to join Kosovo, now that the ethnically Russian Crimean region had joined Russia.

"Serbian municipalities should join Albania and Kosovo"

BELGRADE -- A leader of ethnic Albanians in the south has said that "if Russia can annex Crimea" southern Serbian municipalities should be given the right to join Kosovo.

According to reports, Jonuz Musliu spoke about the municipalities of Preševo and Bujanovac "uniting with Albania and Kosovo."