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The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has criticized the decision of the Serbian authorities to ban the holding of the "Mirëdita, dobar dan" festival on Thursday in Belgrade, saying that Serbia offered the stage to "hooligan groups" instead of leaving it to the artists. .
" Unfortunately, Serbia again showed its implacable hostility to anything related to peace and reconciliation ," Kurti wrote on X shortly after midnight on Thursday.
The "Mirëdita, dobar dan" festival, which promotes cultural cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia, was banned by order of the Ministry of the Interior of Serbia, on June 27, shortly before its planned opening in Belgrade.
" After refusing again to sign the Framework Agreement, which was brokered by the EU and supported by the US, Serbia on Thursday also banned an EU-sponsored initiative, 'Mirëdita, dobar dan' ," Kurti said. who presented on Wednesday in Brussels three conditions for further engagement in the process of normalizing relations with Serbia.
The authorities banned the holding of the festival after protests by ultra-right groups and hooligans.
According to the journalists of Radio Free Europe, in Dorqol square, where the festival is held, the group of protesters was heard chanting "Kosovo is the heart of Serbia", they sang nationalist songs and insulted the citizens of Kosovo.
" A cultural festival with a decade-long history of celebrating diversity that brings together artists from Kosovo and Serbia, 'Mirëdita, dobar dan' was hijacked by Serbian Deputy Prime Minister [Aleksandar] Vulin and Interior Minister [Ivica] Dacic, who distorted it turning it into a grotesque parade of discriminatory and hateful messages", Kurti said.
The Minister of the Interior of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, said on Thursday that the order to stop the gathering at the "Mirëdita, dobar dan" festival was issued for security reasons.
" The Ministry of the Interior issued an order to stop the public gathering 'Mirëdita, dobar dan', because it may endanger the safety of people and property, but also risks disrupting public order and peace on a large scale" , said Dacic, but also Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Since its establishment in 2014, the festival in Belgrade, which promotes cultural cooperation between Serbia and Kosovo, has been accompanied by protests from right-wing organizations and parties that have tried to stop the festival from taking place.
Some representatives of the Serbian authorities have called for the cancellation of the festival this year, which is scheduled to be held from June 27 to 29.
A few weeks before the opening of the festival, there were announcements about this event in the media and social networks, which were accompanied by hate speech.
"Mirëdita, dobar dan" is held once a year, alternately in Pristina and Belgrade, in order to bring the Serbian cultural scene closer to Kosovo and vice versa, to present the contemporary cultural and artistic scene of Kosovo to the public from Serbia.
The event is organized by non-governmental organizations - Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Civic Initiatives from Serbia and Integra from Kosovo./ REL
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