Kosovo Office director to Albanian PM: It's just a dream

Kosovo Office director to Albanian PM: It's just a dream

"By repeating his expansionist and Greater Albania pretensions in our territory, in the capital of our southern province, Rama seriously insulted the Serbian people," the Serbian official said, adding:

"He has heightened tensions in the region, instead of easing them. Sending a message of reconciliation, a wish for cooperation and regional stability, like Serbia is doing, would have been an incomparably more beneficial move by Rama and his aides," Djuric said.

Noting that the joint session in Pristina was held in the National Library, Djuric urged Rama "to pick up a book and learn that Kosovo will never be a part of Albania":

"There are several hundred thousand books in Serbian in the National Library in Pristina. It would have been better if Rama and his associates, instead of holding speeches, picked up one of them. In that way they could have learned that Kosovo and Metohija is not, and never will be a part of Albania, and that this dream of theirs about one state, one people, will remain just a dream, not just for this, but also for future generations."

"Unfortunately, it will be and is todayan ugly nightmare for many in Kosovo and Metohija, because thousands of people have been killed over the past two decades in the name of this idea in Kosovo and Metohija," Djuric also said.

The director of the Kosovo Office then observed that Rama's remarks represented "a slap in the face of any desire and effort to build truly normal relations," adding that Serbia was doing "everything to preserve stability in the region," but that the country stood "for the most part alone" in this effort.

Under the European flag

Tanjug reported on Friday afternoon that the joint session of the governments of Albania and the self-proclaimed Kosovo was held in Pristina, and that Rama spoke about "laying the all-Albanian foundations in the region," referring at the same time to Albania and Kosovo as "one country, one people, one shared dream."

"We together transformed borders from a ditch to a bridge of cooperation, that is growing stronger each day," said the Albanian prime minister, and observed that rights of ethnic Albanians in southern municipalities of central Serbia - Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja - "must be respected as much as minority rights in Kosovo and in Albania."

According to Rama, "the unification of Kosovo and Albania will be realized under the European flag."

He also spoke in favor of institutionalizing relations between Pristina and NATO, adding that he also spoke about this during NATO's recent gathering in Tirana.

Rama said he supported the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, "and deepening of cooperation of all in the region."

Ahead of his trip to Pristina on Friday, Rama posted on Facebook, "Tomorrow is the third meeting between the two governments with a positive balance and ambition to do more, one nation, one dream."