Serbia prepared in case Kosovo renews UNESCO bid

FILE - In this Nov.12, 2013 file photo, the logo of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris. The United States has succeeded Monday Nov. 9, 2015 in its bid to remain on UNESCO's executive board, the only way to wield American power at the world's cultural and scientific agency now that the U.S. government is no longer funding it.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

If Pristina renews its failed 2015 bid to join UNESCO, Serbia is prepared to fight diplomatically to prevent it, says Serbia's ambassador to this UN agency.

Darko Tanaskovic told Pristina-based Serbian language daily Jedinstvo that the precondition for success is all-Serb unity - "that is, for all institutions of the state and society, and the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), to come together and coordinate their activities, as was the case in the final phase of the campaign in 2015...