Albania–Serbia relations

Albanian President Ilir Meta will be in Serbia on December 3 and 4 on "an unofficial visit" to the Medvedja municipality.

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

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.

First Deputy PM and Foreign Miister Ivica Dacic says that President of Bujanovac Municipality Jonuz Musliu should be "thanking God for not yet being arrested."

The Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti reported this on Thursday.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says he is awaiting the reaction of the EU and those who said that Kosovo is a special case.

Dacic, who also serves as the first deputy PM, asked whether Presevo - a town and area in the southern part of central Serbia inhabited by ethnic Albanians - was now also "a special case."

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.

Albanian President Ilir Meta has spoken with Croatian Ambassador Sanja Bojas-Juraga about the decision of the Croatian Supreme Court to extradite Ismail Morina.

The Supreme Court of Croatia has confirmed the first instance decision of a local court to extradite Albanian citizen Ismail Morina to Serbia.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama speaks at the news conference with visiting Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, the first Serbian leader to visit the nation after a troubled past, at the Palace of Brigades in the Albanian capital, Tirana, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Both countries are trying to overcome their troubled past while working toward EU membership.

Croatian Supreme Court is yet to decide whether notorious drone flyer Ismail Morina will be sent to Serbia, after a court in Dubrovnik backed Belgrade's extradition request on Thursday.

On Saturday, Albanian football fans protested in front of the Prime Minister's office, urging the authorities to intervene in stopping the extradition.

President of the National Council of Albanians Jonuz Musliu says a Belgrade court has sentenced him to 40 days in prison, and that the ruling is final.

However, Musliu, who also serves as president of the municipal assembly of Bujanovac, said he "does not know" what the ruling refers to.