After being barred from entering Serbia, Maliqi speaks: They're punishing us.

The last case is today with publicist and philosopher Shkelzen Maliqi. The latter, together with several Kosovo artists, is not allowed to enter Serbia's territory at the border point in Merdare.

The same were planned to participate in a discussion on the launching of publication “20 Years Beyond/Beyond”, which summarizes a chronology of 20 years of cultural co-operation between cultural acts from both states.

Maliqi has said Serbia's border police offered no information on the ban to cross the border.

One of the policemen told us that we cannot go to Serbia without being verified. He told us we should wait for hours at the” border point, he relates.

According to the publicist, these Belgrade actions are directly linked to Kosovo's actions against politicians from Serbia.

I think it's revenge that Serbian officials are being prohibited without permission, as well as our private visits. I'm not an official. So, the cop doesn't know if we're stopping”, he said the index.

It is noteworthy that along with Maliqi there were dramatist and Multimedia Centre director Jeton Neziraj, and Kosovo chief editor-in-chief and photographer 2.0 Besa Luci and Majlinda Hoxha.

Otherwise, Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj had called the stops absurd since some Kosovars had previously been made.

Serbian <x0horites with the act of stopping at the borders of Kosovo artists, invited to the “festival, Dobar Dan” in Belgrade, are ruining even the few possibilities for establishing normal communication with Kosovo, even through art, as universal language”, the reaction of Prime Minister Haradinaj said.