Cultural Heritage Inspectorate Founded

Bedri Hadri, Laberie Daka and Pajtim Zogaj are the three names that will now monitor Kosovo's cultural heritage.

Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Kujtim Gashi has stated that the establishment of the Inspectorate for Cultural Heritage has been his priority as minister and a permanent legal requirement.

According to him, the inspectors of this inspection body will be Guardians who will protect cultural assets in the country.

This mechanism, this inspectors will also be an important instrument that will be in the protection and preservation of cultural heritage, will be under 24 hours monitoring cultural heritage assets, and I am very aware that these thousands of colleagues who will work within my cabinet will have an extremely big job that awaits them because you know that until now perhaps even as a lack of cultural heritage inspectors we have often had the destruction of cultural heritage”, Gashi said.

According to him, the lack of this mechanism has affected but also the degradation of cultural objects in many Kosovo cities.

Gashi said the Cultural Heritage Inspectorate will start working with three inspectors, but who, according to him, will apply to Government, as well as to the Ministry of Finance to increase their number.

He made it known that the inspectors of this Inspectorate, besides preserving cultural heritage, will also have the priority of drafting the sublegal acts they will work with.

These three associates will be the ones that will act from tomorrow to tomorrow and have another job and have another priority to draw up the sublegal acts that they will work with, the working regulation of this council, respectively, and then we will be on the ground like I said 24 hours, seven days of the week”, he stated.

And for that, inspector Bedri Hadri said that by 31 March the regulation regarding the competencies and duties of the Inspectorate for Cultural Heritage would be completed.

“We are on the map of regulation, that is, a draft regulation regarding the competencies and duties of the Cultural Heritage Inspectorate, we think this year's first three-month regulation will be completed specifically by March 31st”, he said.

Asked about the shift of the Ministry of Culture to Prizren as promised during the election campaign, Gashi said they are awaiting a decision by Prizren authorities to deliver to the use of facilities for the ministry's shift.

As for Kosovo's accession to U NESTO, the minister of culture said all obligations that lead towards justice have been carried out in large measure U n NESTO, including the establishment of Cultural Heritage Inspectorate.