Office for Kosovo strongly condemned the decision of Kosovo authorities to ban the visit of Aleksandar Vulin to Djakovica/Gjakove, along with another 120 displaced person from that town.
Pristina authorities have made the decision to ban the Minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo to attend the Good Friday liturgy in the church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Djakovica.
“Once again the authorities in Priština have shown that the policy of apartheid and towns forbidden for Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija continues. As was the case on Christmas Eve, Serbs displaced from Djakovica are forbidden from being with their minister and visit their church on Good Friday, at the eve of the greatest Christian holiday.”
The Office urged the international community to finally put an end to self-willed behavior of Pristina and provide the Minister Vulin and Serb IDPs to visit Djakovica/Gjakove.
“This message that Pristina provisional institutions do not want the Serbs in Djakovica is more than clear. Djakovica is a forbidden town for Serbs, because someone does not want a reminder that the 12,000 Serbs lived there before the conflict in the province, while now there are only four elderly women left,” the statement said.
Office requests from the international community to do everything in order to abolish “the last apartheid in the territory of Europe,” where the freedom of movement is one of the fundamental values of civilized society.
