US Ambassador says seeing Patriarch important for Kosovo Serbs

Speaking a day after Patriarch Porfirije was banned from entering Kosovo, Hill expressed hope that something similar would not happen again.

He said that seeing the Patriarch is a basic issue of religious freedom in Kosovo. Nova.rs quoted him as saying that no one in the international community is opposed to the Patriarch’s right to enter Kosovo and meet the faithful.

Earlier on Tuesday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic blamed part of the international community for the ban on the Patriarch’s trip to the seat of the SPC head in the Kosovo city of Pec.