Tadic in Kosovo: We will never give up on our province
Serbian President Boris Tadic on Thursday visited the Serbs living in the village of Cernica, near Gnjilane, the smallest Serb enclave in Kosovo, and told them that Serbia would never give up on "our Kosovo and our people."
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, February 01, 2008
"I will do everything for us to exist here, for Serbia to exist in Kosovo, because Serbia lives in Kosovo through you," Tadic said and thanked the Serbs for staying in Cernica.
Following announcements that an EU mission will be sent to Kosovo, Tadic told the people of Cernica that all those who wanted to come and secure people's lives was welcome, but only with the UN's approval. "I will never accept Kosovo's independence and will not push the country into wars, but will look for a peaceful solution through negotiations," Tadic said, stressing that Serbia always had to take care of the people and human lives.
In the schoolyard, Tadic talked with the Cernica children, 52 of them, who greeted him with bread and salt, and sang the national anthem. Among the children was Slobodanka Tasic, the girl whose letter Tadic had read in the UN Security Council during a debate on Kosovo.
The president also visited the grave of Milos Petrovic, a young boy who was four years old when he was killed in an Albanian extremists' attack on the village, in 2000.
