Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama during his visit to Kosovo today met with Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa. Rama and Mustafa discussed the latest developments in the region. After the meeting, Rama said Hashim Thaci’s election as Kosovo President is the most positive thing that is happening in Kosovo. Rama is also expected to meet other Kosovo officials during the day.
It is quite certain that the President of the Government of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic will attend a football match for the European Championship 2016 in Elbasan between the teams of Albania and Serbia, after the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama "cancelled invitation" for Hashim Thaci, Danas learned in political sources close to the authorities in Pristina.
Kosovo analyst Lumir Abdixhiku says that Edi Rama and Albania have no right to speak about the Serbian - Albanian reconciliation, "at the same time ignoring the opinion and consent - and thus the existence of Kosovo Albanians who are the only ones afflicted."
The prime ministers of Serbia and Albania Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama, in the TV Show "Okruzenje", agreed that it might be too late that mutual dialogue compensate everything what was lost in the last quarter of a century because of poor relations between Serbia and Albania, but it is evidently a time to overcome barriers.
Zvezdana Kovac, Executive Director of the Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe from Thessaloniki (CDRS) will host premieres of Serbia and Albania in a TV show "Okruzenje".
The prime ministers of Albania and Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama, will be guests in sixty minutes show of the regional TV production "Okruzenje," which is broadcasted in five countries on 11 national and dozens of local television stations, as announced by this production, the RTS will broadcast the show on August 31.
According to the press release, the show will be recorded in a studio in Vienna, during the second conference on the Western Balkans, reports FoNet. The third guest will be Goran Svilanovic, the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council.
Sources reported that Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, will pay an unannounced visit to Kosovo today and meet Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci. The visit will be brief, said the sources. According to Koha, Rama and Mustafa are expected to discuss relations between Kosovo and Albania and the situation in the region. Rama is also expected to brief Mustafa on the recent visit of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Tirana.
Berat Buzhala writes that Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, appear to agree on a very critical issue: denial of existence of Kosovo state. According to Buzhala, Edi Rama went to Serbia “to fish fools in Pristina.” He considers that Rama’s “patriotic” position in Belgrade last November was a weak spectacle. “I was convinced that Rama was acting.
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The Prime Minister of Albania, stated at the press conference after his meeting with Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, that Albanians in the south of Serbia deserve to have the same treatment as Serbs in northern Kosovo. “I believe that this is in the spirit of our joint effort to achieve on the relations of the region with the power of example and not with the example of power. I have never heard about any complaint from Serbs who live in Albania.