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BELGRADE – Police in Belgrade took away a person who tonight interrupted the presentation speech at the opening of the festival “Mirdita – good morning” at the Cultural Decontamination Center.
As the Youth Initiative for Human Rights told Beta agency, that person yelled “Take me back to Kosovo” and pushed the microphone away as the organizers addressed them.
A group of around one hundred opponents of the “Mirdita – Good morning” festival gathered on Birčaninova Street in Belgrade, which had previously been blocked by the police from all directions.
Those gathered belong to the right-wing organization Zavetnici, and among them are organization leader Milica Đurdjević, as well as Sima Spasić from the Kosovo Victims’ Families Association.
The leader of the Serbian right, Miša Vacić, also joined the gathering and told reporters that the festival was a provocation and denial of the Serbian victims in Kosovo, assessing that Kosovo “has no cultural heritage”.
The people gathered threw a torch on the police cordon, which fell on the street near the Cultural Decontamination Center.
The festival “Mirdita – good day”, according to the announcement of the organizers, should open at 6 pm
A part of the Cultural Decontamination Center is covered with photo prints of the destructive pogrom on Serbian Orthodox churches of 2004.
Cultural Festival “Mirdita, good afternoon!” presenting the cultural and social scene from Kosovo to Belgrade, began tonight with the play “I am my own wife.”
During the three days of the festival, there will be a debate on the Belgrade-Pristina negotiation process, on Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO and on the cooperation of young people from Serbian and Albanian societies.
The aim of the festival is to initiate changes and create a tradition of cooperation with the meetings of the social and cultural communities of Serbia and Kosovo, as a contribution to the permanent normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, the organizers said.
(Kurir.rs/Beta/Tanjug)
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