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Abbot says Serb-Albanian relations worse
The abbot of a Serbian Orthodox Church monastery in Kosovo said on Thursday that relations between Albanians and Serbs have deteriorated following irresponsible statements about changes to borders.
“Those irresponsible statements and especially the media campaign which is attempting to impose that solution on the public as the only right one have made relations between Albanians and Serbs worse,” Visoki Decani monastery >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << Abbot Sava Janjic told Belgrade weekly magazine Vreme.
He expressed special concern over statements about a demarcation between Serbs and Albanians which, he says, means “that where one of them lives, the others will not and vice versa”. Janjic said that was in line with “the policies of ethnic cleansing in the wars in the former Yugoslavia”.
“It’s no surprise that active support for the policy of separation which has the support of (Serbian President Aleksandar) Vucic and (Kosovo President Hashim) Thaci has come from one of the ideologues of the idea of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia – (ultra-nationalist leader and convicted war criminal) Vojislav Seselj,” brother Sava said.
A demarcation between Serbs and Albanians, “which was announced at the opening of a meat plant”, would be a huge factor of instability for the region and for Europe and a great tragedy for the Serbs who mainly live south of the Ibar river.
He said the church opposes a frozen conflict as a long-term danger. “A so-called frozen conflict is a term no one in the church has ever used to denote a solution for the Kosovo problem. Every conflict has to be resolved in peace and understanding and frozen means being static. As responsible people, especially as Christians we are obliged to be active peacemakers,” Janjic said adding that the alternative to a frozen conflict is not a return to the ideology of ethnically compact and pure territories.
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