Mayor of Niksic barred from entering Kosovo

The New Serbian Democracy (NSD) announced that the Mayor of Niksic, Marko Kovacevic, has been barred from entering Kosovo. The party stated that such unilateral actions, which undermine fundamental human and religious rights, constitute an attempt to destabilize relations between the Serbian and Albanian peoples in Montenegro.

"By today's decision to prohibit the entry of the Mayor of Niksic and Vice President of our party, Marko Kovacevic, the authorities in Pristina, led by the outgoing politician Albin Kurti, who is today regarded by the international community as the principal factor of instability in the Western Balkans, have once again confirmed their clear anti-Serb policy," the NSD said in a statement.

The party added that the ban is made even more troubling by the fact that it infringes upon Kovacevic's religious rights, as he had been invited, in his capacity as Mayor of Niksic, to attend the Vidovdan memorial service at Gazimestan.

"New Serbian Democracy and its officials will continue to support the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija with all their strength. We do not need any resolutions to do so—we demonstrate it through our actions, which have evidently been noted even by Kurti's alienated and autocratic administration, whose reign of intimidation is drawing to a close," the statement said.

The NSD further emphasized that such unilateral actions, which violate fundamental human and religious rights, represent an attempt to destabilize relations between the Serbian and Albanian peoples in Montenegro.

"But we will have to disappoint Albin Kurti. In our country, we are committed to a shared European future, while his arbitrariness has turned the area of Kosovo and Metohija into the epicenter of instability and toxicity in the Western Balkans. As a result, he has lost all support and legitimacy within the international community," the NSD said.