Edi Rama says although Serbia is ahead of Albania in the process of EU accession, the two countries could join the EU together.
Speaking in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, the Albanian prime minister said this could happen "under the assumption that Serbia recognizes Kosovo."
"This is a performance-based process. Serbia has advantage because it is already negotiating and we hope to start negotiations this year," Rama said.
According to her, the responsibility for this lies with the European Union because it was not sufficiently engaged in the region.
"There is a (foreign) influence, it is our fault, we are not sufficiently present and engaged in the Western Balkan countries," Zaharieva told European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Beta reported, quoting Radio Free Europe.
In an interview with the public broadcaster in the province of Vojvodina (RTV), cited by the Beta agency, Dacic said the possibility of Serbia accepting Kosovo's UN membership was a mirage.
The People’s Movement of Serbs from Kosovo ''Fatherland'' issued a press statement on Sunday evening, stating that the visit of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to Kosovo didn’t bring anything new, and that he said ''lots of futile promises and messages'' that ''cannot encourage Serbs at all'', reports NMagazin.
Belgrade and Pristina decide about goals, pace and who participates or mediates in their dialogue about normalizing relations.
This stems from the explanation Beta received from sources in the European External Action Service (EEAS).
Kosovo Interior Minister Flamur Sefaj received an official announcement that Europol decided to start co-operation with Kosovo, the ministry announced, reports B92 today.
Sefaj met with Deputy Director of the EU Security Council Olivier Onidi, who told him that at the meeting of the Steering Committee, Europol decided that Kosovo "should be on the list of priorities" of the member states of that organization, and that Europol will conclude a working agreement with Kosovo, B92 reports.
Academic and research institutions have no formal role in formulating the US policy towards Serbia or any other country.
This was announced by the US embassy in Belgrade, after the Atlantic Council published a report proposing a more active role of the United States in the Western Balkans.
Serbian Minister of Trade Rasim Ljajic says that Serbia will be increasing and strengthening counter measures towards Kosovo, until the authorities in Pristina do not abolish taxes on imports of flour from Serbia, reports RTK2, quoting the Beta news agency.
"We have some announcement that this decision will be abolished, but it is not said when," Ljajic said.
Minister of EU Integration Jadranka Joksimovic says Serbia "will not be conditioned by recognizing Kosovo in order to become a member of the EU."
Reacting to President Aleksandar Vucic's statement that the EU will ask Serbia to sign a legally binding document on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, Joksimovic said that this does not mean recognizing Kosovo.
Recent statements made by US State Department official Brian Hoyt Yee are "his views, that have not been not harmonized with the EU".
This is what EU sources in Brussels told Beta on Tuesday.
Yee was in Belgrade in late October when he said that that Serbia will not progress on its path toward the EU unless it gives up its ties with Russia.