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Asim Cenaj, a Kosovo municipal officer charged with inciting hate and ethnic intolerance by insulting Serbs at the council building in Decan/Decani, pleaded not guilty in court.

BELGRADE - An initiative to renovate the buildings of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate of Pec has been launched at a recent meeting of Norwegian Ambassador to Serbia Arne Sannes Bjornstad and the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo Metohija Marko Djuric.

The recent incident near the Visoki Decani monastery "undoubtedly showed that there was a terrorist threat and a danger to the people who were there."

The Basic Prosecution on the town of Pec in Kosovo suspects that one of the men arrested in front of the Visoki Decani monastery had fought in Syria.

Kosovo police have denied that the four persons arrested in front of the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Visoki Decani had links to terrorism.

The police also said the group did not attempt to attack the medieval holy place.

Kosovo police were investigating on Monday after the four armed suspects were detained near the monastery near the town of Decan/Decani in western Kosovo on Saturday night.

Police said they were following the suspects' vehicle for some time and after searching it, they found an AK assault rifle, a pistol and some ammunition.

Four armed Islamists have been arrested in front of the main gate to the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Visoki Decani in Kosovo.

This is what Abbot of Visoki Decani Sava Janjic told Tanjug on Sunday, adding that an investigation was under way.

Hundreds of Albanians have protested against a court ruling to suspend the decision on the confiscation of land of the Visoki Decani monastery.

Around 200 Kosovo Albanians rallied in Decan/Decani in western Kosovo, demanding that disputed land should not be given to a Serbian Orthodox monastery.

Visoki Decani monastery's abbot has said that countries that support Kosovo's UNESCO membership do so "for the sake of settling political interests."

Archimandrite Sava Janjic told the daily Politika that this was done due to the fact "Kosovo had to recognize the court for the crimes of the KLA and the Community of Serb municipalities."