Visoki Dečani

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Tuesday Serbia's manoeuvring space regarding a proposal to admit the so-called Kosovo to the Council of Europe (CoE) was very small, but noted that "the truth and justice are on our side."

DECANI - On the third day of his trip to Kosovo-Metohija, Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church visited the Visoki Decani monastery and said peace was a spiritual category and that Kosovo was to be defended, above all, by doing good deeds.

MERDARE - Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Wednesday began a visit to Kosovo-Metohija, where he will celebrate Christmas with Serbs living in the province.

Accompanied by a delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the patriarch will first visit the Patriarchate of Pec and then also Visoki Decani, Gracanica and other monasteries.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Monday attempts to rename Serbian cultural heritage in Kosovo-Metohija to heritage of the so-called Kosovo were an "old narrative" aimed at erasing all traces of Serbian presence in the province and added that, to the best of its ability, Serbia would use all available means to fight against relativisation of history.

PARIS - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday the fact UNESCO considered Serbian cultural monuments under its protection in Kosovo-Metohija to be in danger was significant, and added that Serbs in the province did not trust the so-called Kosovo Police, but Kfor.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with Hungarian Ambassador to Belgrade Jozsef Zoltan Magyar on Friday to inform him of the difficult political and security situation in Kosovo-Metohija, especially in the north of the province, which he said was threatening to jeopardise peace and stability across the region.

Environment Minister Liburn Aliu said on Wednesday that the Kosovo authorities are "extremely concerned" about the inclusion of the Decani Monastery on the European cultural heritage organisation Europa Nostra's 'endangered sites' list.

This was announced on the Twitter account of this Serbian monastery.

As a child, Abedin Pepaj would travel by horse or tractor to spend the summer with his family in the mountains that straddle Kosovo's western border with Montenegro, enjoying the panorama and the cool mountain air.

"After deletion of the Visoki Deani Monastery name-tag on Google maps yesterday and the prompt intervention of our IT team, the name of the Monastery has reappeared on the map again. Let's hope that such incidents will not happen again", the monastery Visoki Decani said on Twitter.