Selakovic meets with Slovak officials in Bratislava

BRATISLAVA - Serbian Culture Minister Nikola Selakovic met with Slovak Parliament Speaker Richard Rasi and the chairman of Slovakia's parliamentary committee on culture, Roman Michelko, in Bratislava on Thursday.

The parties agreed that parliamentary cooperation and bilateral cooperation in culture had been very successful to date, the Serbian Ministry of Culture said in a statement.

They agreed that the cooperation, established through numerous meetings and cultural events, represented an area with extremely valuable symbolical as well as economic potentials that was identified clearly by both sides and contributing to overall Serbia-Slovakia relations.

The meeting was held ahead of an exhibition titled Serbian Medieval Monasteries in Danger, to be staged at the National Gallery in Bratislava.

Selakovic informed Rasi of the significance of the exhibition, previously displayed at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

The exhibition marks 20 years since the inscription of the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Visoki Decani in Kosovo-Metohija in the UNESCO World Heritage list.

Selakovic said Visoki Decani represented an exceptional universal value for Serbia, Europe and the world while being one of the most endangered cultural sites in 21st-century Europe.

He thanked Slovakia for its principled position of not recognising the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo-Metohija as well as for its consistent support for international law.