Kosovo to Implement Court Ruling Awarding Serbian Monastery Disputed Land

Source: Balkan Insight

March 15, 2024

    

Prime Minister Albin Kurti said court ruling awarding 24 hectares of land to the Visoki Decani Serbian Orthodox monastery must be implemented – as the price of Kosovo's accession to the Council of Europe.

The Kosovo government has told the Cadastral Agency to implement a 2016 Constitutional Court ruling awarding land to a Serbian Orthodox monastery.

“Today we told the Cadastral Agency of Kosovo to implement the decision of the Constitutional Court,” Prime Minister Albin Kurti announced, adding that “the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Donika Gervalla, has sent the Council of Europe a verbal note informing about this matter”.

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3/15/2024

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