PRESS RELEASE
The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Austria-Switzerland, with its headquarters office in Vienna, where numerous international political and humanitarian organizations from Europe and worldwide are based, strongly condemns the decision of provisional authorities in Priština to forbid His Holiness the Patriarch of Serbia Porfirije, from entering Kosovo and Metohija to visit the centuries old seat of Serbian Orthodox Church in the Patriarchate of Peć on the eve of the Christmas holidays. At the administrative checkpoint, the car of His Holiness the Patriarch was separated from the rest of othervaiting vehicles, and His Holines and therest of the delegation were told „to wait.“ After 45 minute holdup, His Holiness the Patriarch was told that He is not allowed to enter Kosovo and Metohija, to stay in His home in the Patriarchate of Peć, where the ancient seat of the Serbian Patriarchs is located. Such decission from the Kosovo* authorities is a violation of the …