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Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Kosovo police have again banned the entrance of the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (KOS) But the evidence to enter Kosovo through Merdar, where he was launched despite MPJ announcement that he is not allowed access without distance from violence in northern Kosovo. The same was Kosovo yesterday, [...]
The same was Kosovo yesterday, but had faced the same response from Kosovo authorities.
Porfirije has remained for several minutes on the border control of Kosovo Police, and then has returned to Kursumli, reports “Kosovo Online”.
MPJD published today the letter in which shows why Porphire is not allowed to enter Kosovo. It says he has not been denied entry request, but they request from him, either from KOS, “has convicted, respectively, of being distanced from the actions of KOS members who, entering the Republic of Kosovo illegally, are giving open support to criminal groups in the north of the Republic of Kosovo, who are responsible for barricades located there”.
Therefore, Patriarch Porfirije's request for a visit has not been rejected, as is being propagand by the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian media, but has been linked to distance from acts of violence and actions mentioned above”.
“Such an attitude of Kosovo institutions is determined by the fact that Orthodox priest Predrag Popovic, from the Church of St Bartholomew and Barnabas to Rakovica, near Belgrade, days earlier had publicly acknowledged that last week's Tuesday had illegally crossed the border of the Republic of Kosovo and using its side ways to avoid KFOR patrols, had visited and supported protesters at the barricades in Leposaviq”, the MPD notes in the announcement.
And the patriarch has returned from Merdar's border shortly after 14.30.
After routine control by Serbian border police, Patriarch Portfirije's automobile and its associates have left the column, while travellers have been told “to wait”.
After forty minutes of waiting, Porphire was not allowed access to Kosovo, after which they have returned to Serbia.
Meanwhile, the failure to enter Kosovo of Patriarch Porfirije has confirmed in a proposal for <x0ovo Online”, as well as the director of the Kosovo office in Serbia, Petar Petkovic, who has said that “this, Kurti's violence against the Serbian people has taken on unprecedented size”.
