Valley Albanians attend "greater Albania" gathering

But the state secretary with the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo said it can "never materialize because there is no consensus of political powers in the EU and in the world".

"Whenever there is an incident, or when some big political tensions or frictions are happening, the concept of 'greater Albania' arises and garners great publicity," Ivanovic told.

His comments came in the wake of a trip a number of representatives of ethnic Albanians from Presevo and Bujanovac in southern Serbia to Tirana on October 30. There, they backed the List for Natural Albania regarding the creation of a single state of all Albanians in the Balkans.

Ivanovic said that "this can only mean a greater pressure on the Serbian government with the aim of attaining some privileged or better positions".

The conclusion of the meeting in Tirana is that the List for Natural Albania will submit a request to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to review the London Conference of 1913, as well as the Congress of Berlin, so as to, as they put it, rectify mistakes towards Albanians that occurred after the Ottoman Turk "withdrawal" from this region.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the municipality of Presevo Ragmi Mustafa and Orhan Redzepi, and leader of the Movement for Democratic Progress Jonuz Musliju. Redzepi was quoted as telling the gathering in Tirana that the "Presevo Valley is in the true sense of the world th emost occupied of all Albanian areas in the Balkans".

And while the Serbian prosecution in Belgrade is announcing an investigation into the participation of the Presevo and Bujanovac ethnic Albanian officials, media are reporting that Self-Determination Movement leader Albin Kurti and Presevo municipal President Ragmi Mustafa are the only politicians from the region who supported the list.

Leader of the Party for Democratic Action and Serbian MP Assembly Riza Halimi, and member of the same party and Bujanovac mayor Saip Kamberi did not attend the meeting.

The notion of a so-called "natural", or greater Albania envisages a single state of all ethnic Albanians in the Balkans, that would include parts of the territories of Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia.