The Republic of Kosovo Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with the British Embassy in Prishtina, is working on creating an electronic database regarding cultural heritage of Kosovo.

The Ministry states that this is "a unified and indivisible cultural heritage."

The database will include information on all cultural monuments and the value of various cultural properties in Kosovo.

Valton Beqiri, in charge of the Ministry in the Republic of Kosovo government, said that the intention is to "preserve and promote the cultural heritage of Kosovo and show it as being unified and indivisible at the same time".

“A Swedish foundation will implement the project. Experts will work on updating the database, some of which will be Serbs,” Beqiri said.

 

“We have made contact with officials of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo through the projects for reconstructing Orthodox monuments. We would like to communicate in other projects as well, in order for monuments in Kosovo to be presented as truthfully and faithfully as possible,” he said.

The database will include data from the municipal bureaus for cultural heritage.

Kosovo culture authorities hope that the register will help identify and protect Kosovo’s cultural treasures. Just recently, the Orthodox Patriarchy in Peja was painted in red color by the clerics serving there, denigrating the original authenticity of the monument, which is also under the protection of UNESCO.   

Nine years since the attempt of Serbia to crush the Kosovo insurrection ended with the removal of Serb military and para-military gangs by the NATO allies, hundreds of Kosovo archeological objects remain in Serbia. The objects, which consist most of the objects of the Museum of Kosovo, were sent to Serbia in the months preceding the conflict for an alleged exhibition.