Thaci: UNESCO General Assembly approved the agenda, Kosovo included (Klan Kosova)
Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Hashim Thaci, said today that Serbia is doing everything possible to prevent Kosovo to join UNESCO. According to him, the Serbian Government tried to cancel the discussion on Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO. "These days Serbia is trying with every procedural trap to annul Kosovo's membership in UNESCO. I was just informed that the General Assembly approved the agenda in general, including the discussion on Kosovo’s bid to join this organization,” Thaci said.
Ternava calls on Islamic countries to support Kosovo’s UNESCO bid (Telegrafi)
Website launched for #NoKosovoUnesco campaign (B92)
Serbian authorities' campaign against the membership of Kosovo in UNESCO has continued with the launching of a website.
After posting several short films on the internet about the crimes in Kosovo, the website nokosovounesco.com has now gone online, documenting messages of hatred directed at Serbs, destroyed churches, graveyards, burned down cars.
President Tomislav Nikolic asked Serbians on Monday to spread the truth about Kosovo online by sharing the material on social networks.
Top UNESCO Meeting to Vote on US Role, Kosovo Membership (ABC News)
Abbot Janjic: Postpone vote on Kosovo's membership in UNESCO (RTS)
Abbot Sava Janjic, in a video message, says that he believes that decision on Kosovo membership in UNESCO should be postponed until Belgrade and Pristina, under the Brussels dialogue, clearly define mechanisms of institutional protection of the Serbian holy sites in Kosovo with international guarantees.
Campaign #NoKosovoUnesco started (Danas)
The official YouTube channel of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic published a video "The truth about the destruction of Serbian cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohija", which has launched the campaign #NoKosovoUnesco.
The description of the video states: "The four pearls of world heritage: the Monastery of Decani, the Pec Patriarchate, Gracanica and the Church of Holy Virgin of Ljevisa are still on the list of UNESCO, and are in danger. Those who seek admission to UNESCO are those who have exposed them to danger".
Serbia will apply for UNESCO Executive Council (Vecernje Novosti)
In addition to the fight for blocking possible Kosovo membership in UNESCO, Serbia is having diplomatic fight to enter in Executive Council of this organization. New member states of the Executive Council will be discussed at the General Conference, which will be held on 11 November. In the group of Eastern European countries, where Serbia belongs, should be filled four positions. Beside Serbia, Lithuania, Russia and Slovenia submitted proposals for candidacy, which can be advantage since four countries are interested for four positions.
Serbian site promotes poorly, compared to the Kosovo site (Blic)
After the Executive Board of UNESCO at last week's session in Paris by majority vote accepted Kosovo's application for membership in the Organization for the protection of cultural heritage, both sides (Serbian and Kosovo) initiated lobbying for their aims, in real and in the virtual world. Yet the Kosovo side gave a good lesson ...