Albanian Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Ilir Meta resigned today amid corruption accusations.
Meta resigned after Top-Channel TV aired a videotape which shows him asking former Economy Minister Dritan Prifti to intervene over a hydropower plant concession tender.
Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta said that Albania will continue to cooperate with Serbia for the sake of the Albanians in the Preševo Valley. He said that Tirana will cooperate with Belgrade to improve on the rights and integration of Albanians in southern Serbia.
Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta said that Albania opposes the use of force against Serbs in northern Kosovo. He said that the situation in Kosovo must be normalized, but exclusively through dialogue and cooperation with the Serb community for economic and social development.
Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta said that Albania opposes the use of force against Serbs in northern Kosovo. He said that the situation in Kosovo must be normalized, but exclusively through dialogue and cooperation with the Serb community for economic and social development.
Former Albanian prime minister Pandeli Majko said that Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta’s visit to Serbia came at the wrong time. Majko said, according to the MakFax agency, that the visit served Belgrade more than it did Tirana, because nothing was achieved in the problems related to the independence of Kosovo.
Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta said that relations between Albania and Serbia are improving because they share the common goal of European integration.
Meta met with the Chief of the Southern Serbia Coordination Center Milan Marković while visiting Preševo and Bujanovac. He also met with local officials Ragmi Mustafa and Shaip Kamberi and leaders of the local self-administration and ethnic Albanian political parties.
President Boris Tadić met in Belgrade on Thursday with Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta Beta news agency reports. During the meeting, Tadić stressed the importance of the agreement on cooperation in the fight against organized crime, international illegal drug trafficking and international terrorism, which was to be signed by Serbia and Albania, the office of the Serbian president stated.
The Albanian government stated that it believes that the visit by its Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ilir Meta to Serbia will be “historic”. News agencies report that Kosovo will be discussed in meetings between Meta and Serbian officials and that this is the first visit by a senior Albanian official to Serbia since 2005.
Albania’s Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ilir Meta says the country is willing to cooperate with international institutions. This came in response to the claims made by some UN officials that Albania is preventing an international investigation into the allegations of human organ trafficking during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo.
UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, chief Lamberto Zannier has met with Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta in Tirana, it has been announced. Meta was reported as saying that he was “satisfied with the participation of Kosovo Serbs in the local elections”.
