Pristina again bans Petkovic from visiting Kosovo and Metohija

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The director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, has once again been banned from visiting the southern province by the authorities of the provisional institutions in Pristina. We will inform all international factors about the latest ban, as well as Miroslav Lajcak, said the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

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The Office for Kosovo and Metohija announced that the authorities of the provisional institutions in Pristina banned Petra Petkovic today from visiting Kosovo and Metohija and from attending the founder's patron saint day feast at the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Visoki Decani, set to take place on Wednesday, November 24.

During his two-day visit to Kosovo and Metohija on November 24 and 25, Petkovic was supposed to visit several socially endangered and returnee Serb families in Kosovo and Metohija and hand over much-needed assistance.

A statement from the Office for Kosovo and Metohija said that no ban will prevent Belgrade from continuing to help our people and invest in Serb communities, while Albin Kurti will never be able to prevent that.

"This is the fourth time that the authorities in Pristina are preventing the visit to the province of the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija. Therefore, the question arises whether international factors are ready at all to rein in Albin Kurti in his destructive campaign against all achievements of the Brussels Agreement and other agreements reached in Brussels during the dialogue process," said the statement.

With each new day and every move he makes, Albin Kurti distances us from dialogue and the process of normalization of relations, the Office said, adding that "such bans directly violate all agreements on freedom of movement and official visits, in addition to all other agreements he does not respect."

"We will inform all international factors about the latest ban, as well as the (EU) mediator in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajcak, who is visiting Belgrade today. The question is how come Kurti is allowed to be creating a 'Greater Albania' while official representatives of Belgrade are not allowed to visit their people and their shrines in Kosovo and Metohija? How do such bans contribute to normalization of relations, especially bearing in mind that the visit was announced in accordance with the agreement on official visits, and in a timely manner," the Office for Kosovo and Metohija concluded.

(Telegraf.rs)