In an interview for TV Dukagjini, Kosovo’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Petrit Selimi said Kosovo’s biggest battle at this point is membership of the UNESCO. Selimi said Kosovo will need 2/3 of votes at the UNESCO General Assembly, which means that even countries that have not recognized Kosovo’s independence would have to vote in favor. He added that Serbia was waging an aggressive and negative against Kosovo and that it is comparing the 2004 riots in Kosovo with ISIS. Selimi said that the eventual non-admission in the UNESCO would be disappointing for Kosovo, but not a failure.

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.

Naim Ternava, leader of the Islamic Community of Kosovo, sent a letter to the highest religious authority in Egypt, Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed el-Tayeb, calling on him to use his authority and convince the Egyptian government to support Kosovo’s bid to join the UNESCO. “Kosovo is ready and has all capacities to assume responsibilities in international forums and institutions. For us, membership of the UNESCO is very important, because we would get more experience and receive support in treating, safeguarding and promoting our heritage that best displays the civilization values of our peoples.

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 diplomats are gathering in Paris for a UNESCO conference where they will decide whether to grant Kosovo membership and how much sway the United States will have in the organization.

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.

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".

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.

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 ...

The abbot of Visoki Decani monastery has said that countries that support Kosovo's UNESCO membership do so "for the sake of settling political interests, considering the fact Kosovo had to recognize the court for the crimes of the KLA and the Community/ Association of Serb municipalities. In an interview given to daily Politika, Janjic stressed that it was "completely unjust for all Serb shrines and spiritual heritage to become collateral damage."