(ANSA) - BELGRADE - Kosovo intends to resubmit later this year an application to Unesco and the Council of Europe, said President Hashim Thaci speaking to the local daily newspaper 'Epoka e Re', Serbian public television RTS reported. The first failed attempt of Pristina to enter Unesco occurred in 2015, when the goal was not achieved for a handful of votes. Serbia, that does not recognise the independence proclaimed by Kosovo nine years ago, is strongly opposed to Kosovo's accession into any international organization, considering the country a southern province of Serbia, with an Albanian majority. This opposition regards, in particular, Unesco, because of the huge historical, artistic and cultural heritage of Serbia that remains in Kosovo, of which Belgrade claims to be the owner. Out of 2 millions inhabitants of Kosovo the vast majority, 95%, belong to Albanian and Muslim ethnic group, that has not much to do with the Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries, icons, holy places of the Serbian tradition.

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