The Culture Minister of Serbia, Nikola Selaković, and the Head of the Republic of Srpska Representative Office in Serbia, Mlađen Cicović, discussed yesterday the programs to be implemented by Serbia and Srpska in order to affirm and promote Serbian culture, tradition and cultural heritage.

Selaković said that the discussion had covered everything that followed naturally after the Pan-Serbian Assembly and that the first of a series of agreed cultural events would be held last evening in the National Museum in Belgrade and the National Museum of the Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka.

It is a simultaneous ceremonial opening of the exhibition in honor of the 180th anniversary of the birth of the Serbian King Peter I Karađorđević, who had taken part in the great Nevesinjska puška uprising in 1875 under the alias Petar Mrkonjić.

‘We also touched on the need to jointly mark this important date next year, 150 years since the Nevesinjska puška,’ Selaković told reporters after the meeting at the Serbian Culture Ministry.

He said that the 12th Srpska Days in Serbia would be held this year and Days of Serbia in Srpska be organized, and noted that the organization of these events would be approached in a serious and very meaningful way.

The Head of the Republic of Srpska Representation in Serbia, Mlađen Cicović, said that the Declaration of the Pan-Serbian Assembly was a pledge of the Republic of Srpska and Serbia and Serbian people as a whole, which obliged national representatives to work together to preserve the identity of Serbs in this area by nurturing culture, Serbian language and Cyrillic alphabet in addition to tradition and Orthodoxy.

He noted that the Serbian people should make it completely clear that they want to fight for their freedom and that they will respect the absolute right of all their neighbors to build the future together in this area.

‘Today we discussed all our obligations arising from the Declaration, and also everything that was done in the previous period primarily by the President of the Republic of Srpska Milorad Dodik and the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, who had recognized from the very beginning all the temptations and all the challenges that awaited and will await us in the coming period,’ said Cicović.

Source and photo: Republic of Srpska Representative Office in Serbia