Serbia’s minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic and presidential adviser Mladan Djordjevic were banned from entering Kosovo on May 27 2009, Serbian and Kosovo media said.
 
Serbian news reports quoted Kosovo officials as saying that the two were "unwelcome in Kosovo" and the visit was banned through the European Union mission EULEX.
 
Serbia’s B92 quoted Gnjilane municipal chairman Predrag Stojkovic as saying that he "does not understand the reasons for the ban", because Bogdanovic’s family lives in Kosovo.
 
Kosovo newspaper Koha Ditore quoted Kosovo police spokesperson Arber Beka as saying that police at all border crossings got the decision from the Kosovo government to
deny entry to Bogdanovic and Djordjevic.
 
Beka told Koha Ditore that Bogdanovic and Djordevic had not appeared at any border crossings. Serbia said that the two had not attempted to enter Kosovo after they learnt of the ban.
 
In February 2009, a dispute erupted over the rights or otherwise of Serbian officials to enter Kosovo after Pristina barred Bogdanovic from entry.
 
Kosovo daily Express said on February 23 2009 that Serbia's state secretary at the Kosovo ministry, Oliver Ivanovic, said that Serbian officials would not ask permission to enter Kosovo because, in terms of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244, it remained part of Serbia.
 
According to Express, Ivanovic said: "To the extent there are international representatives here, we do not need permission to enter. They cannot stop us from entering and neither would anyone respect a possible ban of theirs".
 
Ivanovic said that Serbian officials who travelled to Kosovo spoke to UNMIK officials, not to get permission, but request an escort because they did not feel safe while visiting Serb enclaves and the Serb community in Kosovo in general.
 
Express said that officials of the United Nations mission in Kosovo said that they could not offer any further escorts to any delegation that visits the country, including to Serbia, because the mission does not have any police available.
 
Any request for an escort made to UNMIK was passed on to Kosovo's interior ministry and the European Union rule of law mission EULEX.
 
In February, Bogdanovic said: "For all visits and stay in Kosovo and Metohija the Serbian government representatives speak to UNMIK or EULEX, as the only legitimate international missions in the province, which is currently a UN protectorate, according to UN Security Council Resolution 1244."