Should Kosovo become a UNESCO member, the consequences for the Serb identity and cultural heritage in the province would be unforeseeable.

This is according to Serbian Ambassador to UNESCO Darko Tanaskovic.

In that case, UNESCO documents would list medieval Serbian monuments, churches and monasteries as cultural assets in the territory of a "state of Kosovo", rather than in Serbia, Tanaskovic has told Jedinstvo.

That would not automatically mean ownership of the cultural assets would change or that they would become Albanian, but a new stage of planned "contextual pressure" on Serbian heritage - and the very foundations of the Serb identity - would begin, with unforeseeable consequences, he said.

There are no "realistic conditions" for giving "ex-territorial status" to the heritage sites as that would imply the existence of an independent "Kosovo", he said.

Serbia considers the independence of "Kosovo" unacceptable and Serbian cannot enter into any kind of inter-state agreements with it, Tanaskovic stressed.

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