Gracanica Mayor Srdjan Popovic said the meeting with Minister Pal Lekaj was previously agreed without any conditions, and that Gracanica Municipality has symbols regulated by the law, RTS reports today.

Due to the refusal of local officials to place the state symbols of Kosovo in the premises planned for the meeting, Minister of Infrastructure Pal Lekaj gave up his visit to the Municipality of Gracanica, which was announced today, reports KIM radio, quoting Beta news agency.

"For Lekaj and his cabinet, it is unacceptable to be in an institution that does not identify with the symbols of the state to which it belongs, the Republic of Kosovo," the Ministry of Infrastructure said in a statement.

“I am sad to see the slanderous attacks on Father Sava,” USA Ambassador in Pristina, Greg Delawie wrote on his Twitter profile, KoSSev portal reported.

This message came after headlines appeared in the Kosovo media linking Abbot of Visoki Decani Monastery Sava Janjic with Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan in Pristina, with video recording showing Arkan, but not with Father Sava Janjic.

Kosovo’s Minister of Infrastructure, Pal Lekaj, said today that the construction works on the Decan-Plave road are taking place outside the Special Protective Zone of the Orthodox Monastery and added that the issue has needlessly become politicised. At a joint press conference with Montenegro’s Minister of Transport and Maritime Affairs Osman Nurkovic, in Pristina, Lekaj said Kosovo institutions are aware of the responsibilities that derive from the Ahtisaari package but gave assurances that the works are being carried out outside the SPZ.

Head of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Pal Lekaj, said after today’s consultative meeting of parliamentary groups that it is clear who is blocking the creation of new institutions of Kosovo. He said that PAN representatives would not take part in the Assembly’s constitutive session called for tomorrow as it was announced without prior consultations.

Deputy leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Pal Lekaj, said he regretted the fact some parties chose not to attend the meeting called by President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci. “We are sorry other political parties are not demonstrating spirit of cooperation and building of institutions”, Lekaj said adding that his party was ready for the Assembly’s constitutive session.

Pal Lekaj, outgoing MP from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), assessed that 11 June elections have shown who the winner and who the loser is.

“These elections have shown who the winner is and the winner, in consultation with all relevant factors, will create the government, which will give right solution to all the stagnated matters. We will be together, because united, never divided, we can do a lot for the country,” Lekaj said.

Opposition MPs decided to leave the Assembly session after the decision of the French court to postpone the verdict for the former Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj for 6 April.

Kosovo Assembly MP from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), said that today’s decision of a provincial court in France to extend Haradinaj’s staying in France is a clear abuse of the human rights and a tendency to discredit an entire war.

Head of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) parliamentary group, Pal Lekaj, said the most recent telecommunication agreement between Kosovo and Serbia is very damaging for Kosovo. According to Lekaj, the dialing code is not international but rather provincial. “I can call this a success for Serbia not Kosovo,” Lekaj said.