Serbian Culture Minister Vladan Vukosavljevic sent a note to the Vatican protesting what he said were tensions caused by Albanian Catholic priests who served mass on the ruins of a Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo.

Albanian Catholic priests recently served mass on the ruins of the 14th century Orthodox cathedral of St Nicholas which was destroyed in an earthquake. Serbian media reported that the Albanian clergy and politicians had declared the church a Catholic temple.

Vladan Vukosavljevic, Serbia's Minister of Culture and Information, warned UNESCO on Wednesday about the state of Serbia’s cultural heritage in Kosovo, following "the forgery of the historical facts about the Serb Orthodox St. Nikola's church in Novo Brdo," the FoNet news agency reported.

In a letter to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, Vukosavljevic listed "a permanent" attacks on Serb monuments and the forgery of history, especially since the declaration of Kosovo's independence in 2008.

Kosovo Police banned the Minister of Culture and Information Vladan Vukosavljevic to enter Kosovo at around 11.20 am today, at the administrative crossing Jarinje, the correspondent of TV Most reports today.

TV Most reports that Vukosavljevic has been denied entry to Kosovo at the crossing Jarinje although his visit was duly announced.

The state of Serbian heritage in Kosovo is a matter of cultural identity of the first order, estimates the Minister of Culture and Information Vladan Vukosavljević.

He says to daily Jedinstvo that it is very difficult to ignore the fact that in Kosovo, inter alia, there are more than 1,300 Serbian churches, monasteries and archaeological sites, and it is impossible not to take into account the historical period in which they had arisen.