German Ambassador: Implementation of Constitutional Decision for Decani Monastery Too Late

Rohde has written that he fully supports O'S Chief's statement SBE in Kosovo, Michael Davenport over Constitutional Decision

Full question for Davenport's statement implementation of the Constitutional Court's decision has been delayed too long, said Rohde.

Davenport has said the Court's decision should be carried out even though the situation about the monastery is complicated.

““O The SEU has mandates extending along the public sphere of security and democratisation, but also very essential rule of law. And if there is a Constitutional Court decision it is important in our view that that rule must be implemented. Of course, I know him, we know the situation about the Monastery and the Communists that is complicated. It is also important that the interests of the municipality and the local community be taken into account. But at the end of the day, the Constitutional Court's decisions must be implemented”, Davenport said in KTV's interactive.

Five years ago, Kosovo's Constitutional Court had ruled, under which the ownership right is recognised to the Decani Monastery over 24 hectares of land. But this decision has never been implemented by this municipality.

Decani residents and municipal officials had staged several protests in 2013, saying the monastery is the object of Albanian worship rather than Serbs.