Albania's foreign minister said on Monday that his country will not get integrated with Kosovo even if the province should be granted independence from Serbia.

Besnik Mustafaj was reportedly as saying that his government won't form a "greater Albania" with Kosovo but wants to build permanent and intensive cooperation between them.

Kosovo has been under UN jurisdiction since 1999. Of Kosovo's 2 million population, some 90 percent are ethnic Albanians bent on independence.

According to a poll made in 2005 in Kosovo, although more than 90 percent of its population are for independence, less than 10 percent support integration with neighboring Albania.

The UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari submitted at the end of March his proposal to the Security Council on supervised independence for Kosovo.

The Security Council held closed-door consultations over the issue at the beginning of this month but failed to reach agreement on it.

Source: Xinhua