"Serbia will fight against Kosovo's UNESCO membership"

"Serbia will fight against Kosovo's UNESCO membership"

Addressing reporters after the patron day of the Saint Archangel Gabriel, Vulin recalled that "one of the first decapitated Christians was Father Hariton in Kosovo and Metohija."

"We have not forgotten the March 17 pogrom and those who set the on fire the Church of Our Lady of Ljevis and dozens of other churches and monasteries now want to present themselves as the guardians of the heritage of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metohija," Vulin said.

"If there had been no March 17 pogrom, and if the Serbian churches had not been set on fire, if Father Hariton had not been decapitated, we would perhaps have believed in this, but now we cannot and shall not believe in it," he said.

UNESCO must not and cannot accept that the Visoki Decani Monastery (also on the World Heritage List) was built by anyone but Serbs and the Serbian Orthodox Church, Vulin said.

"When Father Hariton was decapitated, nobody in Europe raised their voice and now the evils which Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija suffered and against which Serbia kept warning, which are now embodied in the Islamic State, are returning to the world," Vulin said and underscored that "it would be positive for the Serb voice to be heard."