ČEGAR -- PM Mirko Cvetković says that Serbia is dedicated to living in peace, cooperation and friendly relations with neighboring and other nations and states.
ČEGAR -- PM Mirko Cvetković says that Serbia is dedicated to living in peace, cooperation and friendly relations with neighboring and other nations and states.
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The prime minister added that Serbia's fight for her sovereignty and integrity is being conducted by peaceful, diplomatic and legal means.
"This is the reality and the safest way to preserve all the resources that Serbia has. Instead of heavy words and ill thought-through moves, we have chosen a peaceful path. Instead of risks we have chosen a safe strategy based on respect of international law," he was quoted as saying, in reference to Kosovo.
According to Cvetković, Serbia's authorities have a clear goal – to build a stable country that will be the pillar of peace in the region, arranged according to "European principles of modern civilization".
"We have the strength, there are human and natural resources, a favorable geostrategic position and good economic potential. The government of Serbia's vision is a democratic and prosperous Serbia, integrated into Europe," the PM said, and added that the country's "long-term" strategy is to join the family of "modern European states".
"Ahead of us is a period of accelerated arranging of the country, a time when all things must be put in their place. Improvisations and lack of unity will not be forgiven by our ancestors who built their lives into Serbia's freedom, nor their offspring who rightly expect a peaceful and better life."
As for the battle commemoration, Cvetković said that 200 years on, "Serbia remembers the great sacrifices made for freedom, but also the tragedy that disunity led to".
"The history of the Balkans has for centuries been warning that only when united, we can improve our country and that only with wisdom we can achieve great goals. A modern and prosperous Serbia, such as the one we're building, needs friends in all four corners of the world," concluded the prime minister.
Numerous delegations were today at the Čegar memorial complex near Niš, in southern Serbia, among them a representative of the Turkish embassy in Belgrade.
The battle took place on May 31, 1809, during the First Serb Uprising, when Serb forces clashed with occupying Ottoman Turks.
Historical sources say that one of the commanders of the uprising, Stevan Sinđelić, after realizing that he could no longer defend his position against the Turks who outnumbered the Serbs, advised his men to leave and save themselves if they wished, before firing his gun into a gunpowder storage.
The explosion that was triggered in this way killed all Serb soldiers, some 3,000 of them, and about 6,000 Turks.
After the battle, the Turks' reprisals included erecting of the Ćele Kula (Skull Tower), built out of skulls of 952 Serb soldiers.
Today, the monument holds 58 skulls, and it is believed that Sinđelić's is among them.
In 1979, the structure was declared part of the nation's cultural heritage of exceptional importance.
I don't get this logic either. Firstly its contradictory and secondly it doesn't explain anything.
At least we have our history, we know where we are from and we know where we are going.
Vecnaja Pamjat Vojvoda Sindjelicu.
(Milan, 3 June 2009 10:48)
Jovan. You know well that Albanians in Kosovo destroyed those churches as a sign of hate towards serbians not because they hate christianity. Why no churches are destroyed in Albania? Yah, there are some extremist in all cultures and the people who did destroyed those churches are nothing more then extremists.
(uli, 3 June 2009 04:08)
"Am glad that for albanians religion means nothing and religion of albanians is albanism."
If religion doesn´t mean anything for Albanians, how poor are they, actually?
it would explain of course, whey they are vandalizing serbian cemeteries, churches and monasteries, ...
but what kind of culture is that?
uli, you don´t know what you have just written about your very own people...
by the way: what is "Albanism"?
what is it, actually, that you are so proud of???
if I were an Albanian I´d be rather quiet, since siding with the Nazis in WW II, or with the Ottomans during the ottoman times is not really something to be proud of...
very sad for the Albanians if that should be the case...
(Jovan, 3 June 2009 00:48)
Milan. We fought the Turkish harder then anyone else and we resisted more then anyone else to the point that we gave up. You know that for albanians islam means nothing, its just a name we have gotten to use to gain priviledges from turks.. At one point in ottoman empire in Albanian if you were not muslym you would not have a lot of basic rights, therefore they had to change religion by force. Am glad that for albanians religion means nothing and religion of albanians is albanism.Quite frankly honestly even that am orthodox most of albanians are atheist.
(uli, 2 June 2009 17:41)
It never ceases to amaze me how the Albanians try to remind us of how they fought the Turks and how much we have in common. I really can't get over it. Considering that you mostly converted to Islam to receive Turkish patronage how an earth did you fight the Turks like the Serbs did. I mean poor Skanderbeg would be rolling in his grave at what you have become. He spent his life fighting Turks and then you all convert and spend the next several centuries destroying Serbian land. Isn't this a little contradictory? Its like Islamized slavs revering Czar Lazar. Does anyone see how odd this is?
(milan, 2 June 2009 13:47)
"The explosion that was triggered in this way killed all Serb soldiers, some 3,000 of them, and about 6,000 Turks"
What a bunk. Does anyone seriosly believe that nine thousand soldiers can be killed just like that?
Not even if Sindjelic had used some Weapon of Mass Destruction.
(Peter RV, 1 June 2009 01:44)
Nice underhanded comment, "Serbs took advantage of your weakness."
In a sophmoric attempt to find common ground, you did nothing more than cement our differences. Perhaps you want to cry me a river and tell us all how you also suffered under the hands of the Nazi's? Ooops, you were Nazi henchmen so that doesn't work out.
Serbians didn't have to take advantage of your temporary weakness, that disadvantage remains even to this very day.
(uli, 31 May 2009 17:35)
One thing that serbs and albanians have in common is, we fought together turks at one time, we lived together under ottoman empire in one time, we got out of empire with more lost territories and serbs took advantage of our weakness at that time. We both should consider Turkish Empire an evil empire that has done a lot of damage to our nations. Let’s agree at least on this one.
(uli, 31 May 2009 16:17)
Nice underhanded comment, "Serbs took advantage of your weakness."
In a sophmoric attempt to find common ground, you did nothing more than cement our differences. Perhaps you want to cry me a river and tell us all how you also suffered under the hands of the Nazi's? Ooops, you were Nazi henchmen so that doesn't work out.
Serbians didn't have to take advantage of your temporary weakness, that disadvantage remains even to this very day.
(uli, 31 May 2009 17:35)
One thing that serbs and albanians have in common is, we fought together turks at one time, we lived together under ottoman empire in one time, we got out of empire with more lost territories and serbs took advantage of our weakness at that time. We both should consider Turkish Empire an evil empire that has done a lot of damage to our nations. Let’s agree at least on this one.
(uli, 31 May 2009 16:17)
"The explosion that was triggered in this way killed all Serb soldiers, some 3,000 of them, and about 6,000 Turks"
What a bunk. Does anyone seriosly believe that nine thousand soldiers can be killed just like that?
Not even if Sindjelic had used some Weapon of Mass Destruction.
(Peter RV, 1 June 2009 01:44)
"Am glad that for albanians religion means nothing and religion of albanians is albanism."
If religion doesn´t mean anything for Albanians, how poor are they, actually?
it would explain of course, whey they are vandalizing serbian cemeteries, churches and monasteries, ...
but what kind of culture is that?
uli, you don´t know what you have just written about your very own people...
by the way: what is "Albanism"?
what is it, actually, that you are so proud of???
if I were an Albanian I´d be rather quiet, since siding with the Nazis in WW II, or with the Ottomans during the ottoman times is not really something to be proud of...
very sad for the Albanians if that should be the case...
(Jovan, 3 June 2009 00:48)
It never ceases to amaze me how the Albanians try to remind us of how they fought the Turks and how much we have in common. I really can't get over it. Considering that you mostly converted to Islam to receive Turkish patronage how an earth did you fight the Turks like the Serbs did. I mean poor Skanderbeg would be rolling in his grave at what you have become. He spent his life fighting Turks and then you all convert and spend the next several centuries destroying Serbian land. Isn't this a little contradictory? Its like Islamized slavs revering Czar Lazar. Does anyone see how odd this is?
(milan, 2 June 2009 13:47)
Jovan. You know well that Albanians in Kosovo destroyed those churches as a sign of hate towards serbians not because they hate christianity. Why no churches are destroyed in Albania? Yah, there are some extremist in all cultures and the people who did destroyed those churches are nothing more then extremists.
(uli, 3 June 2009 04:08)
Milan. We fought the Turkish harder then anyone else and we resisted more then anyone else to the point that we gave up. You know that for albanians islam means nothing, its just a name we have gotten to use to gain priviledges from turks.. At one point in ottoman empire in Albanian if you were not muslym you would not have a lot of basic rights, therefore they had to change religion by force. Am glad that for albanians religion means nothing and religion of albanians is albanism.Quite frankly honestly even that am orthodox most of albanians are atheist.
(uli, 2 June 2009 17:41)
I don't get this logic either. Firstly its contradictory and secondly it doesn't explain anything.
At least we have our history, we know where we are from and we know where we are going.
Vecnaja Pamjat Vojvoda Sindjelicu.
(Milan, 3 June 2009 10:48)
Nice underhanded comment, "Serbs took advantage of your weakness."
In a sophmoric attempt to find common ground, you did nothing more than cement our differences. Perhaps you want to cry me a river and tell us all how you also suffered under the hands of the Nazi's? Ooops, you were Nazi henchmen so that doesn't work out.
Serbians didn't have to take advantage of your temporary weakness, that disadvantage remains even to this very day.
(uli, 31 May 2009 17:35)
One thing that serbs and albanians have in common is, we fought together turks at one time, we lived together under ottoman empire in one time, we got out of empire with more lost territories and serbs took advantage of our weakness at that time. We both should consider Turkish Empire an evil empire that has done a lot of damage to our nations. Let’s agree at least on this one.
(uli, 31 May 2009 16:17)
Milan. We fought the Turkish harder then anyone else and we resisted more then anyone else to the point that we gave up. You know that for albanians islam means nothing, its just a name we have gotten to use to gain priviledges from turks.. At one point in ottoman empire in Albanian if you were not muslym you would not have a lot of basic rights, therefore they had to change religion by force. Am glad that for albanians religion means nothing and religion of albanians is albanism.Quite frankly honestly even that am orthodox most of albanians are atheist.
(uli, 2 June 2009 17:41)
"The explosion that was triggered in this way killed all Serb soldiers, some 3,000 of them, and about 6,000 Turks"
What a bunk. Does anyone seriosly believe that nine thousand soldiers can be killed just like that?
Not even if Sindjelic had used some Weapon of Mass Destruction.
(Peter RV, 1 June 2009 01:44)
I don't get this logic either. Firstly its contradictory and secondly it doesn't explain anything.
At least we have our history, we know where we are from and we know where we are going.
Vecnaja Pamjat Vojvoda Sindjelicu.
(Milan, 3 June 2009 10:48)
Jovan. You know well that Albanians in Kosovo destroyed those churches as a sign of hate towards serbians not because they hate christianity. Why no churches are destroyed in Albania? Yah, there are some extremist in all cultures and the people who did destroyed those churches are nothing more then extremists.
(uli, 3 June 2009 04:08)
"Am glad that for albanians religion means nothing and religion of albanians is albanism."
If religion doesn´t mean anything for Albanians, how poor are they, actually?
it would explain of course, whey they are vandalizing serbian cemeteries, churches and monasteries, ...
but what kind of culture is that?
uli, you don´t know what you have just written about your very own people...
by the way: what is "Albanism"?
what is it, actually, that you are so proud of???
if I were an Albanian I´d be rather quiet, since siding with the Nazis in WW II, or with the Ottomans during the ottoman times is not really something to be proud of...
very sad for the Albanians if that should be the case...
(Jovan, 3 June 2009 00:48)
It never ceases to amaze me how the Albanians try to remind us of how they fought the Turks and how much we have in common. I really can't get over it. Considering that you mostly converted to Islam to receive Turkish patronage how an earth did you fight the Turks like the Serbs did. I mean poor Skanderbeg would be rolling in his grave at what you have become. He spent his life fighting Turks and then you all convert and spend the next several centuries destroying Serbian land. Isn't this a little contradictory? Its like Islamized slavs revering Czar Lazar. Does anyone see how odd this is?
(milan, 2 June 2009 13:47)