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Jeremic: Serbian monasteries in Kosmet must not become pawns 21 April 2009 Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić called on UNESCO and the international community to help in the protection and preservation of the Serbian cultural heritage in Kosmet and prevent the issue from being misused for political purposes. Serbian monastiers must never become pawns in the perilous identity creation game, he said before the UNESCO Organization Board, commening on the attempts of Pristina to misrepresent the Serbian cultural heritage as that of Kosovo Albanians. Such an attempt to rewrite history must be condemned most severely, Jeremic pointed out and added that the international community and UNESCO must not stay passive. Stating that the preservation of the threatened Serbian cultural heritage in Kosmet is Serbia’s national priority, he emphasized the importance of that battle and its universal meaning in the context of the threat caused by the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosmet. He pointed to an attempt of postponing the decision of the World Heritage Committee on medieval monuments in Kosmet due to pressure to artifically separate that part of the Serbian heritage from others and thanked UNESCO for preventing the attempt at politicizing cultural heritage. He also emphasized that in the past 10 years Kosovo Albanian extremists destroyed or damaged more than 150 Serbian churches and monasteries in Kosmet, but reiterated Serbs want reconciliation, compromise and life in peace. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "serbia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/serbia -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
