Albanians

According to Stefanovic, most of these recruits come from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and from Kosovo.

At a meeting of senior security officials held in Russia on Wednesday, Stefanovic said that a special challenge for Serbia was the complex security situation in Kosovo, due to the significant number of extremists associated with Islamic State.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said yesterday that he no longer trusts the international community, which is a guarantor of the Brussels agreement, and not just Albanians, on the issue of the formation of the Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO).

1.5 million people left Albania between 1990 and 2017. This is the data of the National Statistical Institute in Tirana, quoted by BGNES. In the last 6 years alone, 317,000 have left their homeland. Their number in the past year is 40,000, which is 15,000 more than in 2016.

The citizens of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are split along ethnic lines with regard to the change of the neighboring country's constitutional name in order to reach an agreement with Greece and secure NATO membership, a local poll has shown, with 49 percent of people rejecting any name change.

Tillerson spoke on Thursday in Vienna, Austria, where he is attending the OSCE Ministerial Council.

"Governments should accelerate economic and political reforms, including institutional strengthening, the fight against corruption and the rule of law," he said, according to Tanjug.

These are the key steps, the US official said.

Beta reported that Fabrizi also said it was very important to implement the Seven Point Plan, which the Serbian government passed in June, 2013, at the proposal of the Albanian parties from Bujanovac and Presevo.

Albania's Elbasan Arena stadium on Thursday night will host a "historic" football match when Serbian team Partizan Belgrade play in the country for the first time in 30 years.

Both Partizan Belgrade and Skanderbeu Korca have qualified for the Europa League 2017-2018 championship.

Macedonia's new Social Democrat-led government this week tasked the Information Ministry with starting work on a register of the population.

However, this does not mean that the authorities are trying to avoid organizing a proper census, government spokesperson Mile Bosnjakovski explained.

Serbian intelligence services have received information of a risk of tension between Serbia and Macedonia, "in which Albanians would be involved."

Apart from them, "a part of the authorities in Macedonia" is included in this scenario, Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti writes.

Albanian increasingly see France as their preferred destination to seek asylum in a time where their first destination of choice, Germany seems determined to reject almost every request coming from Albanian citizens.