Vulin banned from entering Kosovo-Metohija

BELGRADE - The Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) said in a release that Aleksandar Vulin, Serbian minister without portfolio in charge of KiM, was denied entry to Kosovo by the authorities in Pristina on Tuesday and called on the international community to finally do what they are mandated to and have this problem solved once and for all.

Vulin was supposed to visit KiM at the invitation of RTK 2, a television channel broadcasting program in the Serbian and minority languages in KiM, to speak at the television’s office in Pristina on the topic of one year since the agreement on normalizations of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, signed in Brussels on April 19, 2013.

“Pristina’s negative decision contributes neither to the implementation of the Brussels agreement, nor to mutual trust, nor to the vitally important normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, unlike the efforts made by the Serbian government and the minister in charge,” the release said.

The Office for KiM has urged representatives of the international community to condemn the decision to ban Vulin’s arrival in Kosovo and to finally do what they are mandated to so that he could freely visit the province.

Another reason for the minister’s visit to RTK 2 is to address the Serbs in KiM and send them happy Orthodox Easter wishes.

Pristina yesterday rejected the request by Minister Vulin to be allowed a two-day visit to the province to go to the villages of Donja Budriga near Gnjilane and Rajanovci in the municipality of Kosovska Kamenica and deliver aid to two Serbian families on the occasion of Serbian Orthodox Easter holidays.

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