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BELGRADE, March 5 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Serbian nationalists and Orthodox Christians are protesting a Western plan to mend ties between Serbia and its former province of Kosovo. protest in Belgrade on Sunday to do march spent
Many Serbs consider Kosovo, home to the main churches and monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox faith, to be the center of the Serbian nation.
A longtime ally of Serbia Russia Serbian nationalists who want to establish close relations with the president Aleksandar Vučić has been criticized for his role in negotiating a Western-backed accord with Kosovo.
On February 27, Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti tentatively agreed to an agreement on the normalization of relations, but did not sign it.
Zorica Mojsic from Belgrade other march “The people of Serbia, who polluted this land with blood, will not give Kosovo to Serbia, because Kosovo is sacred,” he said while walking with his participants.
The Serbian Orthodox Church organized its own prayers for Kosovo, which will continue until Easter, but did not support the march and its clergy did not participate.
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Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Porfirije said in his sermon on Friday that “no one should teach the church… What is Kosovo… Kosovo in words free it’s easy to do,” he said.
Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians form the majority 20In 2008, almost ten years after the war that ended the Serbian rule, it declared its independence. But Serbia still claims Kosovo as its territory, and the flare-up of violence has raised fears of renewed conflict.
More talks are needed to implement the pact, and the two leaders will meet again on March 18 in the North Macedonian lakeside town of Ohrid under EU auspices.
Report by Aleksandar Vasovic; Edited by Ros Russell
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2023-03-06 10:43:36
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