The directors of Sava Center conference hall have to be replaced or tender their resignations, say officials of the Human Rights Ministry.
Their reaction came because of an incident on Tuesday when Sava Center barred a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) news conference from taking place at the New Belgrade premises.
The scheduled GSA press conference was cancelled by the Sava Center for "security reasons".
The cancellation caused a protest of Alliance activists before the movie Milk was shown at FEST film festival.
State Secretary with the Human and Minority Rights Ministry Marko Karadžić told B92 that it was a matter of discrimination and the directors of the center must bear responsibility.
"What surprised me is that is that such discriminatory opinions, which made the news conference impossible, were explained in that way-that means neither the place, nor the hall were a problem, but only the organizer and the theme which was to be discussed at the press conference," said Karadžić.
"Additionally, it is also worrying that individuals jointly put their personal opinions in first place, above the Constitution, laws and politics which the Republic of Serbia government enacted, and that is that every individual has equal rights before the law, that regardless of differences they have the right to live in harmony with that," he said.
"The most moral thing, in this situation, would be to tender their resignations. If not, they will have to be replaced," said the state secretary for the Human and Minority Rights Ministry.
Minister of Culture Nebojša Bradić said yesterday that the reaction of the Sava Center directors was "worrying".