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| Jeremić speaks at Day Against Fascism ceremony |
| 10 November 2009 | 14:49
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FoNet, Beta |
BELGRADE --
FM Vuk Jeremić stated that remembering the pogrom of the Jews in the Second World War represents a lasting moral, political and social responsibility.
 | Jeremić speaks in Belgrade on Monday evening (Beta)
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Jeremić was speaking in Belgrade on Monday evening during a ceremony at the National Theater, organized to mark International Day Against Fascism.
“Today is not only a day to commemorate the most horrific crimes but also to commemorate the anti-fascist fight and our joint victory, a victory of the idea of freedom and justice as an antipode to racial extremism,” said the minister.
He noted that the Second World War “mass killings and persecutions carried out in the name of blood and soil ideology represented a peak of anti-civilization behavior”.
“For that treason, remembering of that shameless violence represents our permanent moral, political and social responsibility,” he said.
Jeremić reminded that almost all synagogues, Jewish cemeteries and stores in Germany had been destroyed in the so-called Cristal Night, on November 9-10, 1938, and that hundreds of Jews had been killed at the scene, with more that 20,000 had been arrested and taken to concentration camps.
The foreign minister said that violence was a symbolic beginning of the Holocaust – which is remembers as unprecedented human suffering.
“But this was not just a symbolic, rather, unfortunately a quite real beginning of organized and systematic pogrom of the Jewish people, a crime against six millions innocent civilians, victims of fascism… It was a crime without precedent in the history of the world, and up until today fascism has been the most monstrous act of human civilization,” he said.
Jeremić pointed out that today Serbia is a forward-moving country, proud of its own tradition and identity.
“Our behavior today and during the Second World War shows that our fundamental values are freedom and justice, as the only sustainable foundations of true patriotism.”
Jeremić also paid tribute in his speech to all those who lost their lives during the war, and welcomed the attending Serbians veterans of the Spanish civil war, the Second World War, recipients of the Order of the National Hero, and other top military decorations.
The foreign minister singled out concentration camp survivors and representatives of the Jewish community as he welcomed those who attended the gathering last evening.
“Let us remember, let us stand tall, and finally fight for the thing no generation before us has managed to do completely – for a permanently normal, safe and just life in this region,” he said.
While fighting for peace and equality. Serbia showed that fight against evil was at the very root of its being, Jeremić stated.
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