Vucic: Our state was born here and has never died since

KRAGUJEVAC - As a people, without a state we would be in the position of peoples even larger than us that live in territories that belong to others and by laws made by others and are left at the mercy of the interests of others, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday in Kragujevac, central Serbia, at a ceremony marking February 15, Serbia's Statehood Day.

"The state was born here and has never died since, and without a state, without the principles it rests upon, without institutions and the mechanisms the economy, education and the health care system have been built upon, freedom would not be a word we live and live for, but a dream we die for without the hope of it ever coming true," Vucic said.

Faced with the consequences of a war in eastern Europe that we are not involved in and with pressures over Kosovo-Metohija, we can find our salvation in the...

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