Minister of Labour, Employment, Veterans’ and Social Affairs, Zoran Djordjevic asked support during the General Assembly of the Conference of European Churches held in Novi Sad to prevent Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO, reports Serbian media.
The Serbian Minister said that ”vast majority of cultural heritage in Kosovo consists of Serbian church arts and architecture”, reported portal Kossev.
”Kosovo Albanians and the Pristina authorities have not only proven they don’t have the capacity to foster our cultural heritage but have shown their lack of will to prevent its destruction from allegedly spontaneously gathered groups of Albanians in the pogrom of 2004; and they often actively participate in its destruction, which you can witness today, with the construction of a bypass-highway threatening the monastery of Visoki Decani,” said the Minister.
The Serbian Patriarch Irinej, during the opening ceremony earlier, called on the Conference of European Churches to:”…raise a voice against this injustice, against the taking of 17 percent of the territory of the Serbian people, just to satisfy the one with whom we lived there for a long time with. “
”…even today we have nothing against living together, but they do not want it, and destroy everything that is ours, starting from our sacred places to the graveyards, all with the goal and desire to destroy all the traces and roots of the history of one nation and one culture. It’s an injustice that the world is looking at today with open eyes!” – said also the Patriarch.
More than 500 participants of European churches are discussing current challenges in Europe and the world in Novi Sad: social imbalance in Europe, migration, persecution of Christians in Syria and Iraq, freedom of religion and justice for minority and majority communities and climate change.
