(ANSA) - BELGRADE - Leaders of the Balkan countries, instead of making incendiary declarations that do not favour reconciliation, should focus on reforms and co-operation, according to Maja Kocijancic, EU Commission spokeswoman.

Speaking to Serbia's Tanjug newsagency on recent statements made by Pristina and Tirana governments about the so-called 'Greater Albania' project, the spokesman recalled the repeated statements on this topic released by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and the Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn.

Instead of incendiary declarations, ''the EU expects everyone in the region to continue building good and co-operative relations in order to take further steps towards European integration'', said Kocijancic. Serbian leadership has strongly condemned some recent statements made by Albania's PM Edi Rama and Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci on a possible union between the two countries in view of a single state for all the Balkan communities belonging to Albanian ethnicity. (ANSA).