(ANSA) - PRISTINA - The authorities in Pristina have issued an order prohibiting the director of theSerbian Government's Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric to visit today Pec (Peja in Albanian), the city in western Kosovo which houses one of the most important dioceses of the Serbian Orthodox Church. This decision, local media reported, was taken after Djuric's 'provocative' behaviour and statements recently made in Gracanica, Serb enclave not far from the capital Pristina.

According to Kosovo authorities, this behaviour is ''contrary to the spirit of cooperation between Serbia and Kosovo''. Minister Edita Tahiri, coordinator for the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade, is confident that Kosovo next week will get its own international dialing code +383, which was the subject of a long-standing dispute with the authorities of Serbia, which does not recognize Kosovo as an independent state which can have its own international prefix. According to Tahiri, the EU ordered Belgrade to remove the veto and their aversion to this issue.(ANSA).