Bogdanovic: EULEX to prevent unreasonable decisions of Pristina
Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said, after the decision of interim Kosovo authorities to ban him from coming to the province, it is high time that EULEX took steps to prevent unreasonable behavior of Pristina and let Pristina clearly know that Pristina is the cause and source of all tensions.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, August 19, 2010
EULEX must ask themselves what kind of message the provisional Kosovo institutions, by prohibiting my tomorrow's visit, are sending to Kosovo Serbs, and also say how many provocative situations need to happen in order for the international community to respond, said Bogdanovic.
He said that the decision to ban his tomorrow's visit to Kosovo, where he lives with his family, is unacceptable and represents a political provocation and a new unilateral act of the Kosovo institutions. Bogdanovic was supposed to open a kindergarten in Priluzje tomorrow.
Meantime in Pristina, EULEX said that it was "not included in the procedure of realization of the Serbian officials visits to Kosovo", nor in Thaci's "decision to suspend" those visits. The mission's spokeswoman Irina Gudeljevic told reports that "requests for Serb officials go via the EU high representative in Belgrade, to the special EU representative in Pristina, who informs the Kosovo government. After it makes a decision, the information goes back the same way".