MODERN ART CAN AID RECONCILIATION IN THE BALKANS: TADIC

Serbian President Boris Tadic told a UNESCO conference that modern art can help reconciliation as it was the only area where exchanges continued during the 1990s Yugoslav wars.

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Serbian President Boris Tadic told a UNESCO conference that modern art can help reconciliation as it was the only area where exchanges continued during the 1990s Yugoslav wars.

"The value and importance of modern art in our region is reflected in the fact that it was in that domain where communication never stopped," Tadic said at the opening of a summit of the UN cultural organisation called "Modern art and reconciliation in Southeast Europe".

"Even in this region's troubled period joint art projects represented the only model of how cultures could connect, recognise themselves in others... despite differences in heritage, tradition and religion," Tadic said.

The Serbian president spoke in front of regional counterparts including Croatia's Ivo Josipovic, Bulgaria's Georgi Parvanov, Albania's Bamir Topi and Montenegro's Filip Vujanovic.

Reconciliation in the Balkans region which shares a conflict-scarred history is an important condition for countries here to join the European Union which insists on good relations with neighbour countries.

Of the countries participating in the UNESCO summit only Bulgaria is already a member of the European Union, with Croatia set to follow in mid-2013.

In a joint statement by all leaders present they vowed to "remain fully committed to the ongoing processes of reconciliation in South-East Europe so as to jointly build a peaceful and prosperous European future of the entire region".

They also promised to "recognise and promote the essential role of the arts" for individuals and society as a whole and strive to "initiate, implement and sustain cultural cooperation" in southeast Europe.

In his speech Tadic also highlighted the problems the war legacy in the region causes for preserving cultural heritage, citing the example of Kosovo.

Kosovo declared independence in 2008 almost a decade after NATO stepped in to drive the troops of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic from the majority ethnic Albanian province. Belgrade does not accept the declaration of independence.

On the territory now under Pristina's control are hundreds of religious and historical sites important to Serbs including several monasteries that are on UNESCO's list of jeopardized cultural heritage.

"Those sanctuaries represent the essence of Serbian identity. Physically they are, unfortunately, jeopardized by extremists - more than 150 churches and monasteries have been destroyed since June 1999. We are witnesses to political attempts by Pristina to change the indisputable Serbian identity of those sanctuaries" to a Kosovan one, he warned.
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