Deçan/Dečani municipality today decided to go on strike for four hours against the decision of the Constitutional Court for transferring the ownership of 23 hectares of land to Deçan/Dečani Monastery. The municipal institutions later continued with regular work during the afternoon hours.

Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister, Branimir Stojanović points out that the judgment of the Constitutional Court has damaged the monastery because there are a few more plots that they claimed, while Stojanović considers the protest as an excuse for provoking instability.

The announced protests of Albanians, because of the restitution of land of the Dečani monastery, could raise ethnic tensions, also might radicalize the differences between the Albanian parties, which could directly affect the Serbian community in Kosovo.

Media in Pristina are full of headlines on the decision of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo about the return of land to the monastery of Visoki Dečani, which is why the Albanians announced mass protest.

Municipal Assembly of Deçan/Dečani held today an extraordinary meeting regarding the decision of the Constitutional Court on the properties around Deçan/Dečani Monastery. Both the coalition government and opposition assessed that except for being illegal, shameful and discriminating for Deçan/Dečani citizens the decision of the Constitutional Court among other issues, impedes economic development of this city.