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Pacolli reportedly makes open death threat against Dacic (Tanjug, Kurir, B92)

Behgjet Pacolli reportedly has made an open death threat directed at Serbian First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, Tanjug news agency reports citing a report in the Belgrade-based tabloid Kurir, which said the incident happened during an informal EU ministerial meeting in Bucharest, Romania, over the weekend. According to this media report, Pacolli, who serves as Foreign Minister in the Pristina government, spoke "without restraint, and in Serbian," when he addressed Dacic to say: "If there should be an assassination, you should know it's us Albanians." Dacic commented on this la

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Rama: We encourage the agreement, it leads to the unification of Albania and Kosovo (Blic, Vecernje Novosti, TV Klan, Zeri)

Albania is encouraging the achievement of the final agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, as it will enable the unification of Albania with Kosovo, said Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, reports Belgrade based daily Blic, quoting Pristina based Zeri.

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Serbian PM comments on statements of her Albanian counterpart (RTS)

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said the sole goal of Edi Rama's latest statements is political spin, and blaming Serbia for all the unreasonable decisions made in Pristina, RTS reports. Reacting on statements Albanian PM Rama made in Croatia – who said that Serbia had "violated the CEFTA (free trade agreement) – Brnabic said she thought Rama was responsible but unfortunately was wrong. "I think that the job of a government, if one is responsible, which I thought Edi Rama was, is to deal with concrete things and truths that will contribute to the quality of the citizens' lives in the futu

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Situation not normal, Albanian PM Rama says (N1, Beta)

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama said the 100 percent tariffs imposed by Pristina on goods from Serbia are ''not normal, but the situation is not normal as well,'' regional broadcaster N1 reported.

''In normal conditions this would be a problem,'' Rama told reporters at a meeting of the Central European Initiative, adding that Serbia violated the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA).

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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.

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Rama: I do not know what happens behind closed doors (Tanjug, B92, TV Klan)

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said he has no detailed information about Belgrade-Pristina agreement. He denied he had a role in easing communication between Serbian and Kosovo presidents, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci. “When I say “no” I am saying I have no detailed information that would put me in a position to have knowledge about what has happened behind the closed doors and that would enable me to comment on it,” Rama said. “Certainly, I have spoken with President Thaci, but I know no details,” Rama further explained. Speaking about communication between Vucic and Thaci, Rama to

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Meeting of heads of governments of the West Balkan (Serbian media)

Serbian media reported yesterday that Albania would be hosting an informal meeting of the heads of the Western Balkan governments, citing a statement of the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's cabinet.

The cabinet's statement reads that the topic of the meeting will be "regional economic integration", the development of a common vision for EU accession, implementation of the regional economic zone and other issues.

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FM: Kosovo is "failed project, Greater Albania derivative" (Tanjug, B92)

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says he was not surprised by the news of the elimination of roaming charges between Kosovo and Albania. As Dacic told reporters at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday, "this is nothing new, but something that has been happening for a number of decades and centuries - the desire to establish a Greater Albania." He said that "no one in Europe is asking about Albanian statements and actions taking place in Albania and Kosovo, while in the meantime, border controls are being abandoned, joint consular missions are opened - and then they ask Serbia what it thinks about Mi

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Haradinaj to Rama: Focus on developing Albania (Indeksonline)

In response to the statement by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama that Kosovo and Albania should have a single president in the near future, Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj said Kosovo does not need lectures from anyone. “I told Edi Rama that we can boast to one another as much as we want [but] Edi Rama will help Kosovo only by developing Albania,” Haradinaj said in Mitrovica today. “I don’t wish to enter into unnecessary debates because we are brothers.

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