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Office for KiM Director Djuric: "Kurti could easily carry the title of Kosovo Baron Münchhausen" (Serbian media)

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said last night that the “Greater Albania” project and the erasure of Serbia and Serbs from the map are the backbone of Albin Kurti’s program, saying that he does not want to talk to Serbs which were elected by Serbs's votes.

Drecun: We must accept that Greater Albania will be created (TV Pink, B92, Beta)

Serbian Assembly Committee on Kosovo and Metohija chair Milovan Drecun has assessed that the creation of Greater Albania is an irreversible process.

Drecun also told Belgrade based TV Pink that this will be created "in one form or the other" and that this is being done in order to create a counterpoint to Serbia - a territory that could, with its size, resources and population be able to compete with Serbia.

Popovic: No solution without Russia, China and US (Blic, Vecernje Novosti)

Negotiations on Kosovo under the auspices of the EU have yielded no results, without US, Russia and China it is impossible to achieve a viable and applicable compromise between Belgrade and Pristina, said Minister of Innovation and Technological Development Nenad Popovic, adding that the issue of Kosovo slowly returns to the Security Council of the UN, the Serbian media reported.

Athens condemns Tirana's Greater Albania provocation (RTS, B92)

The Greek MFA has condemned the manner in which Albania used redevelopment of the Skenderbeg Square in Tirana to promote "unity of Albanian territories." Namely, some of these territories are located in - other countries, RTS is reporting on Tuesday. The statement, published on the Greek Foreign Ministry's website under the headline, "Foreign Ministry announcement on the irredentist nature of the redevelopment project at a central square in Tirana," said this represents yet another provocation from the Albanian government. "We condemn the placement, in Tirana's redevelope

Three reasons for change – What is behind Erdogan’s “no” to "Greater Albania"? (Blic)

Blic daily reported that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan completely changed his stance on the Balkans, after saying the project of “Greater Albania” is not only bad but also dangerous. He made these remarks in an interview to the Albanian TV station only three days before holding parliamentary elections in Albania. “These are bad things. You see what happens in the Middle East, Iraq, and Syria. We do not want such crisis to happen in the Balkans. (…) We respect the sovereignty and integrity of all countries and that has to be clear.

"Greater Albania" unacceptable to Turkey – Erdogan (B92)

Turkey's president says "the ideas of some about the unification of Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo into a Greater Albania" are "bad, and unacceptable to Turkey."

According to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey is loudly advocating "respecting sovereignty and integrity of countries in the Balkans."

Vucic: Don't worry, there'll be no Greater Albania (B92)

Prime Minister and President-elect Aleksandar Vucic says that Serbian citizens should not be concerned about Ramush Haradinaj's statements.

According to Vucic, who is currently in Beijing, no such thing as a Greater Albania will exist.

In addition, he said that Haradinaj's statements - like the latest urging Washington to "solve things between Belgrade and Pristina if Brussels can't do it" - are all "part of a concerted policy whose protege is Haradinaj."