For six years, Pristina has been brutally refusing to return land to Serbian Orthodox monastery Visoki Decani

Photo: Tanjug/ Zoran Zestic

The decision of the Constitutional Court in Pristina to return 24 hectares of land to the medieval Serbian monastery Visoki Decani, which was made six years ago, has not been implemented yet, and the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, says that this example shows that there is no rule of law in Kosovo and Metohija. He also urged the international community to put the strongest pressure on Pristina to implement that decision.

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In a statement to the media, Petkovic pointed out that the authorities in Pristina are brutally refusing to implement what has been agreed if it happens to be in the interest of the Serb people, but they are more than ready to implement all their decisions when that is needed to attack the Serbs.

"Since 2016, politicians in Pristina have brutally refused to implement the decision of their highest legal instance. Not only are they unable and unwilling to implement decisions and agreements from Brussels, they do not even want to implement their own decisions, and that happens whenever these concern the Serbs. When it is necessary to do what is in the interest of the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija, there is no political will, and here when it comes to the court's decision, it is no longer about any political will, but about the need to respect rights," said Petkovic.

He stressed that there is no rule of law in Pristina's institutions and that the true picture of the situation in Kosovo and Metohija is seen in the statement of the minister of culture of the Provisional Institutions of Pristina, who said that the Constitutional Court's decision regarding Visoki Decani should not be taken for granted.

"They refer to the Constitutional Court when it is necessary to attack (formation of) the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), but when it is necessary to return land to Visoki Decani, they deny that decision, say that it is a decision from the Milosevic era and are trying to do everything from the lowest instance, that is, from local self-government, to the highest instances of provisional institutions of self-government to stop the execution of that decision and to demonstrate that the will of an individual, a politician in Pristina is above any law and any court," he added.

He mentioned that since the beginning of this year alone, more than 11 temples and churches of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metohija have been desecrated, and added that when Pristina says it wants to protect churches and monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metohija, all it is doing is provoking.

Having all that in mind, the very mention that so-called Kosovo should become a member of the Council of Europe would be a violation of human rights in the heart of Europe, a trampling on democracy in Europe, said Petkovic.

(Telegraf.rs)