Kosovo and Albania will intensify cooperation in the field of agriculture, seeing it as one of the main potentials for economic development, RTKLive reports. Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, Memli Krasniqi, met on Friday with Albania Ambassador to Kosovo, Qemajl Minxhozi and discussed about investments to be made in Kosovo in the field of agriculture. "Agriculture is one of the key sectors for development of the country and one of the main priorities of the government,” said Krasniqi.

A report by Kosovo’s GAP institute says that while the creation of a common energy market between Kosovo and Albania would lower costs, it must not lead to the building of more high-polluting coal power stations in Kosovo. Kosovo's GAP Institute think tank has said it strongly backs the integration of the electricity systems of the two countries, "but is against the exploitation of lignite for the sake of cooperation”. The Pristina based think-tank said in a statement said its position was “due to the negative effects produced by the use of coal as a source for the production of electricity,

Albania prosecutors are helping their Kosovo counterparts investigate corruption allegations against EULEX judge Francesco Florit, BIRN can reveal. Documents obtained by BIRN show that Tirana District Court on September 19 approved a prosecutor’s office request to assist the Kosovo judicial authorities in investigating an Italian EULEX judge and two others suspected of corruption. According to the legal assistance request presented by the prosecutor’s office to the Tirana District Court, Kosovo authorities believe that between 2009 and 2011 Francesco Florit accepted promises of bribes 750,00

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric says the statement of the President of the Albanian government Edi Rama on Kosovo’s independence will not change the road of Serbia to stability in the region In the RTS morning program, Marko Djuric said that Serbia will not stray from the road of reforms that it started. Djuric said that the Rama's statement is "his identity card," and that is falls within the category of statements that are intended to provoke. "This is one small line, and Serbian foreign policy successes are extraordinary," said Djuric. As he explained, the r

Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama will visit Serbia on 10 November, announced yesterday the Government of Serbia.

Albania supports Kosovo's independence, but does not consider the option of so-called "Greater Albania," says Remzi Lani, executive director of the Albanian Media Institute. - No political party in Albania stands for something like that.

President of Albania, Bujar Nishani, said in his address at the UN General Assembly that Kosovo has become an important factor of stability and peace in the region and that Albania fully supports overall development of Kosovo, its stability and territorial integrity in its present borders. “The independent state of Kosovo, the youngest state in the region, in less than six years has managed through transformative development agenda to gain wide international recognition and successfully integrate in regional and international organisations”, said Nishani. He stressed further that the progres