Preservation of national identity and freedom are Srpska and Serbia\u2019s main tasks arising from the Declaration on the Protection of National Rights of Serbs, announced, among other things, the event Strength of Unity, held as part of the 59th Ko\u010di\u0107 Gathering in Stri\u010di\u0107i near Banja Luka, the birthplace of Petar Ko\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n
We must not lose ourselves, our goals and our identity, and that is why it is important to return to Petar Ko\u010di\u0107, who taught us how to persevere because that is the only way we can succeed, said the President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik, in his address to the audience.<\/p>\n
The envoy of the President of Serbia, Nikola Selakovi\u0107, stated \u2013 we are one nation, we speak one language, and that one language creates one culture.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Stri\u010di\u0107i was a place of assembly \u2013 around Petar Ko\u010di\u0107, his works, his fight for the freedom of the Serbian people. That fight was not only reflected in the written word, but also through political action.<\/p>\n
When we compare current times with Ko\u010di\u0107\u2019s time, we as a people have a greater degree of freedom, said Dodik.<\/p>\n
BiH is not our identity, our identity is the Republic of Srpska and Serbia, noted the president of Srpska. And that is why, according to him, we need the unity of the people in order to defend Srpska in these difficult times.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Our goal is to connect as much as possible with Serbia. We are one united people. The Declaration we adopted says that there are no Bosnian, Croatian or these and those Serbs, only Serbs. They can be defined as Ko\u010di\u0107\u2019s Serbs. The Serbian Declaration is the most powerful document of recent Serbian political history and its importance is yet to come \u2013 said Dodik.<\/p>\n
Ko\u010di\u0107\u2019s Gathering is another confirmation of Srpska and Serbia\u2019s determination that Serbs, as one nation, celebrate figures and events from the past that testify to the unity of Serbian identity, said Nikola Selakovi\u0107, the envoy of Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n
\u2013 My wish is that every culture minister in Serbian Government has a sweet and good obligation to be present here. The countries may be different, the politics and boundaries a changeable category, but one thing remains the same. We are one nation, we speak one language, and that one language creates one culture \u2013 stated Selakovi\u0107.<\/p>\n
And Petar Ko\u010di\u0107 is part of that culture. Apart from him, according to Selakovi\u0107, there is no person whose life, literary oeuvre or work, emphasizes more the thirst for Serbian freedom. For a moment, that thirst was revived on stage by the actor Aleksandar Stojkovi\u0107.<\/p>\n
The Strength of Unity cultural and artistic program was also marked by the poem Bogojavljenje (Epiphany) by this year\u2019s Ko\u010di\u0107 Award recipient, academician Matija Be\u0107kovi\u0107.<\/p>\n
In Stri\u010di\u0107i, Be\u0107kovi\u0107 reminded that Petar Ko\u010di\u0107, like Nikola Tesla, was the son of a priest and that these were two great personalities of the Serbian people who, as time went by, grew bigger and bigger, and their works more and more contemporary.<\/p>\n
Source: RTRS<\/p>\n
Photo: President of the Republic of Srpska<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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