Court decides Visoki Decani monastery has ownership rights to land

GRACANICA/PRIZREN - Kosovo's Constitutional Court ended 16 years of dispute in a property case with a ruling deciding it in favor of Visoki Decani Monastery, confirming its ownership rights to over 24 hectares (59 acres) of the disputed land, the The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Diocese of Raska and Prizren said in a release on Saturday.
    
In the decision, posted on the official website of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, the Court ruled that two decisions of the Appellate Panel of the Special Chamber of the Supreme Court of Kosovo on Privatization Agency of Kosovo Related Matters of June 12, 2015, remanding the case and the issues in dispute to the Basic Court in Pec - Branch in Decani, are null and void.
    
It also ruled that the two decisions of the Specialized Panel on Ownership of the Special Chamber of the Supreme Court on Privatization Agency of...