Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric has sent a letter to the editor of the British “Independent” regarding the article on Kosovo. Djuric pointed out that more than 200,000 displaced Serbs cannot return to their homes, which is why, when writing about harmony in Kosovo, was hypocritical at least.
Djuric said in a letter to the editor of the British journal regarding the article entitled “Kosovo: Harmony prevails in this corner of the Balkans” that he will not enter into a political debate about the international legal status of Kosovo, and that he was aware of the fact that they cannot agree on this issue, as well as they did not agree on this issue with the government in London. Promotional materials, which, he said, this text was certainly, often differ from reality, but a travelogue of the author Peter Duncan, was so different from the reality that he was forced to write the letter and draw attention to a point of view completely neglected in this text.
He pointed out Serbs throughout Kosovo are visiting their properties and cemeteries escorted by police. He also said in the letter that attacks on the returnees occur almost on daily basis and the medieval monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox Church, recalling that some of them are on the list of UNESCO, are guarded by the police and international forces (KFOR).
He said none of the vendors of tourist arrangements, “and your author is”, should not be blind before these facts, because it is not fair nor humane.
As he stated in the letter, he could only agree to one thing ”that is the fact that the natural beauty of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija, is the pearl of the Balkans and Europe”.
– The text is in all other segments full of factual errors. Serbia joins, nevertheless, the call for tourists to witness first-hand the natural beauty, because all the residents of the province would benefit (although your author does not reveal that anybody else lives there except “Kosovars”, i.e. the Albanian population) – stated Djuric in the letter, sent to Tanjug.
