KPS takes over security of Serb monastery

The NATO-led troops in Kosovo, KFOR, will today hand over the responsibility for the security of the Gračanica monastery to Kosovo police, KPS.

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Thursday, 05.08.2010.

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The NATO-led troops in Kosovo, KFOR, will today hand over the responsibility for the security of the Gracanica monastery to Kosovo police, KPS. The medieval Serbian Orthodox Monastery is located close to the Serb enclave in central Kosovo. KPS takes over security of Serb monastery It will be the first structure described as "marked as having special status", that will be now guarded by KPS members. The Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries were placed under protection of KFOR because many were attacked and destroyed by ethnic Albanians in 1999, and 2004. Ministry for Kosovo State Secretary Oliver Ivanovic said that the handover today "never represented a problem", since the municipality has a majority Serb population, and because the KPS members guarding the monastery will "mostly be Serbs". Serbian Orthodox Church Bishop Teodosije of Lipljan, however, stated on Thursday that the decision to hand over protection of the Serb monasteries to KPS would jeopardize security of the clergy, and warned that the decision was made without the consent of the Church.. Teodosije stated that by abolishing KFOR presence around the eight Kosovo monasteries will put in danger both the holy sites and the clergy, adding that this fact is being ignored. The SPC stated that such a decision is premature and risky, and the message was addressed to the NATO top officials including Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO ambassadors, commanders of the NATO forces in Europe and admirals Stavridis and Fitzgerald.

KPS takes over security of Serb monastery

It will be the first structure described as "marked as having special status", that will be now guarded by KPS members.

The Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries were placed under protection of KFOR because many were attacked and destroyed by ethnic Albanians in 1999, and 2004.

Ministry for Kosovo State Secretary Oliver Ivanović said that the handover today "never represented a problem", since the municipality has a majority Serb population, and because the KPS members guarding the monastery will "mostly be Serbs".

Serbian Orthodox Church Bishop Teodosije of Lipljan, however, stated on Thursday that the decision to hand over protection of the Serb monasteries to KPS would jeopardize security of the clergy, and warned that the decision was made without the consent of the Church..

Teodosije stated that by abolishing KFOR presence around the eight Kosovo monasteries will put in danger both the holy sites and the clergy, adding that this fact is being ignored.

The SPC stated that such a decision is premature and risky, and the message was addressed to the NATO top officials including Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO ambassadors, commanders of the NATO forces in Europe and admirals Stavridis and Fitzgerald.

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