Information Service of PATRIARCH PAVLE RECEIVED MICHAEL STEINER, HEAD OF UNMIK His Holiness Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, received Mr Michael Steiner, special envoy of the UN Secretary General for Kosovo and Metochia in the Patriarchate Palace in Belgrade today. The talks dwelled on the current situation in Kosovo and Metochia, participation of the Serbian people in the governing institutions in Kosovo and Metochia, as well as on the possibilities for establishing multiethnic society in Kosovo and Metochia, for setting democratic rights and providing a normal life and work for the refugees willing to return. Talking with the primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Head of the UN Civil Mission in Kosovo repeated that the return of the exiled Serbs to Kosovo and Metochia represented the process that the international community is in charge of. "Our goal is multiethnic Kosovo. We need help from all authorities, first of all from the Serbian Orthodox Church" Steiner said. Patriarch Pavle said that he himself had met with representatives of various other religions and Churches in Kosovo and Metochia in the period when he had performed the duty of Bishop of Raska-Prizren, adding that he was still ready to talk with them any time. His Grace Pahomije, Bishop of Vranje, member of the Holy Synod of Bishops, attended the meeting of Patriarch Pavle and Michael Steiner (who was heading the delegation). This is not Patriarch's first meeting with Michael Steiner. They had already met during the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
