Serbian Minister of Culture Nebojsa Bradic spoke yesterday with the manager of the Russian Conservation Committee Igor Makovetsky and president of the National Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO Grigori Ordzhonikidze about a Russian donation for the reconstruction of cultural monuments in Kosovo-Metohija.
The donation of $2 million is part of a process launched at a donor conference of UNESCO and the Council of Europe in Paris on May 13, 2005. The donation was given by the government of Russia with the blessing of Russian Patriarch Alexey.
Bradic informed the Russian officials about the monuments in Kosovo that the Culture Ministry is interested to reconstruct.
He stressed that the ministry is ready to support all projects respecting the interests of the Serbian state, competent institutions and ministries, the Serbian Orthodox Church and our citizens in Kosovo.