Edi Rama

BRUSSELS - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's visit to Serbia and meeting with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic is a significant step forward in the relations between the two countries, Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson for EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, as stated.

PRESEVO - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has said that there is no reason for ethnic Albanians in the Presevo Valley to have fewer rights than Serbs in northern Kosovo.

Rama salutes group displaying Greater Albania map

BELGRADE -- On his way back to Albania from southern Serbia, Albanian PM Edi Rama traveled through Kosovo where he stopped to salute a group carrying a Greater Albania map.

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.

Minister: Drone incident "caused by Albanian citizen"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović said late on Monday that the football stadium drone incident on Oct. 14 was caused by "an Albanian citizen."

The incident happened in Belgrade during a Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifier, and the drone carried a map showing "Greater Albania".

President says he refused to meet with Rama

BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić's office said late on Monday that he had refused to receive visiting Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.

The reason is that "provocations were to be expected from him," a statement said.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade-based NGO Forum for Ethnic Relations organized a roundtable on Serbia-Albania cooperation on Monday evening, with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama as a guest.

Dusan Janjic, director of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, said during the discussion that "the ghosts of the past should not trip the living up on their road to the future."

BELGRADE - Monday's meeting between the Serbian and Albanian prime ministers, Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama respectively, is a missed opportunity for improving the relations between the two countries, as the Albanian prime minister evidently did not resist the nationalist impulse, political analyst Predrag Simic noted.

BELGRADE - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama abused Serbian hospitality by the presumptuous provocation in Belgrade on Monday in the wish to humiliate Serbia, but he failed, Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric said.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Serbs in northern Kosovska Mitrovica protested on Monday afternoon over the political provocation by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama who stated in Belgrade earlier in the day that Serbia should recognize Kosovo's independence.