Rightist protests at the opening of the festival “Good afternoon, dobar dan!” in Belgrade

Against holding this festival, rightist organisations are protesting. Several hundred people, led by the head of the right Serbian party “Zavetnici”, Milica Djurdjevic Stamkovski, have gathered around 1600, when the festival's opening was warned.

However, the police cordon is standing in the middle of protesters and the target on which the festival is being held. The festival is being held at the Centre for Cultural Decontamination.

Protesters are waving the flag of Serbia and the party “Zavetnici”, holding placards with photos of monasteries found in Kosovo and cheering slogans for Kosovo and insulting comments to participants at this festival.

Prior to the festival's launch, Milica Djurdjevic Stamekovski has warned the peaceful “projectors” because of the festival.

She has called this festival “Albanian-and-in-the-heart modeled Belgrade “and <x2 loss of cultural heritage”, with the order that “there is no welcome, but it's only goodbye”.

The Serbian Radical Party (SRS), which is led by The Hague convict Vojislav Seshel, has warned on October 21st on its website that “no serious state would allow the festival "Goodday" will hold, Dabar!haw! because it is propaganda against the state, and for promoting the false state of Kosovo”.

The last hostile action is the so-called Good News Festival, DobarDan, the festival that promotes Kosovo's culture and that way accepts Kosovo's false state”, is said in the communique of the Serbian Radical Party, where it has also been added that “it is unbearable for people who are born as Serbs to promote Kosovo's culture in the middle of Belgrade as the culture of Kosovo and thus recognise the false state of Kosovo<3>

The festival has been held since 2014, and it is organised by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights. The festival will last until 24 October.

As warned, due to the coronary pandemic, this festival will be held by respecting the measures.

It has been announced that the three-day festival will discuss the negotiation process between Belgrade and Pristina, for Kosovo's membership in U NESTO, as well as co-operation between young people of Albanian and Serbian society.

The aim of the festival, as it has been warned, is that through meetings of Kosovo and Serbian cultural and social communities to initiate changes and establish a tradition of co-operation, with which the sustainable normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina will be made.

At this festival, the Belgrade public will be presented to artists and performers representing Kosovo's modern cultural scene.

The theatre show I'm the woman-to-be from Koliqi Consumption, also makes the official opening of this festival.

On the second day, in the festival's workshop are “Kosovo-the legacy of memory” and an exhibition with the same appointment, and on the third day there will be debate on transitional justice in Kosovo, there will be performances of Tristan Halilajt, who will read fragments from his book “Richard Gere has been here”, the collection of stories, which is originally published in Serbian, as well as the production of film “Aga house”

Inspiracy for this cultural event is Bekim Fehmiu, an Albanian Kosovo actor who has been known as an actor in Belgrade, the former Yugoslavia and the world and who presents the symbol of unity and skiing, as well as the possibility of connecting two cultural spaces to a unique whole.

The “Good afternoon festival, Dobar dan!”, which has been held in Belgrade since 2014, over the past years has been the target of right-wing and fan groups, while the Centre for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD), in which part of the programme is held, in 2018 was under police siege because of the right. / REL