The authorities in Pristina decided to declare Nobel laureate Peter Handke persona non grata in Kosovo, after the same decision was passed by authorities of the Sarajevo Canton in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kosovo’s outgoing Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli wrote on his Twitter account that Handke and the Nobel committee showed a lack of respect for victims of genocide and added that he decided to declare the literary prize laureate a persona non grata because of his support to the late FRY President Slobodan Milosevic.
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Today I have decided to declare Peter #Handke as persona non-grata in #Kosovo because of the support he gave to Milosevic and his genocidal policies in #Kosovo & #BiH & denial of the genocide committed by Serbia. He & the @NobelPrize showed disrespect to the victims of genocide.
— Behgjet Pacolli (@pacollibehgjet) December 11, 2019
Handke was presented the Nobel Literature Prize at a ceremony in Stockholm earlier this week, amid protests over his backing of the Milosevic regime during the wars of the 1990s.
