Kosovo's Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic condemned on Sunday in the strongest terms the desecration of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Pristina.

The Serbian Orthodox church was desecrated by a group of protesters during Saturday's opposition riots in Pristina.

Stojanovic said the behaviour was shameful and uncivilized and that it was unacceptable that police watched the protesters who have entered the church, and did nothing.

He underlined the need for setting up a fence around this unfinished church as soon as possible.

This Serbian Orthodox church has been targeted many times before and the perpetrators were never found, Stojanovic noted.

He called on the Kosovo interior minister to take measures against the police officers who failed to act and who allowed the protesters to urinate inside the church.