Albania–Serbia relations

"Haradinaj's war threats are reason enough why Kosovo shouldn't have an army and why we have to draw a clear and strong line between Serbia and Greater Albania", Vulin said this morning.

Serbia would not be entering any wars,it wouldn't cause conflict but it would protect its interests and its people,he said in a Ministry of Defence statement.

Thaci told a press conference on Wednesday that he "only meant adding the Presevo valley to Kosovo" when he spoke about "correcting the borders."

And at the same time, "there would be no partition of Kosovo nor autonomy for Kosovo Serbs," he said.

A former Serb policeman was indicted for allegedly taking part in killing of two people - one of them with disabilities - and for forcing ethnic Albanian civilians out of a village in 1998 during the war in Kosovo.

Ragmi Mustafa told T7 broadcaster that Pristina delegation led by President Hashim Thaci "should take seriously the request of Albanians in Presevo Valley to discuss their matter in Brussels."

The brothers Bytyqi traveled to Serbia to fight in the ranks of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the 1999 war in Kosovo. They were captured by Serbian authorities shortly after the war and sentenced to 15 days in prison for having illegally crossed the state border between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Albania.

The governing body for Swiss football has dismissed as baseless reports in the Serbian media that Russia had urged the Swiss Football Federation to ban "Greater Albania" or Kosovo flags and symbols during Friday's match between Switzerland and Serbia in Kaliningrad.

As Dacic told reporters at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday, "this is nothing new, but something that has been happening for a number of decades and centuries - the desire to establish a Greater Albania."

The OSCE mission in Kosovo said it wants renewed efforts to uncover the truth behind the kidnappings, murders and disappearances of Serb and ethnic Albanian journalists connected to the 1999 war.

As some Serbian and Kosovo politicians mull swapping territories between the two countries, members of the the ethnic Albanian minority in southern Serbia say they would rather see both countries inside the EU.

"This is not something new. This is a story that circles both in southern Serbia and Kosovo," Nedzad Beljulji, the owner of TV Spectra in Bujanovac, in southern Serbia, said.

Belgrade officials condemned the arrest of a refugee Serb who had returned to the Kosovo village of Klina after being displaced by the conflict, calling his detention on war crimes charges politically motivated.