UN General Assembly
2024

- After the big victories that the better part of humanity won in the World War I and the World War II, and Serbs, as the nation, suffered the biggest losses proportionally to its size in the Great War, as well as in the World War II, where they were one of the few nations in the Southeast Europe that had confronted the Nazis from the very beginning, and that is why Belgrade was, perhaps, the only city that was brutally bombed and devastated already at the beginning of 1941. We, Serbs, were not welcoming Nazi tanks with flowers, and we paid the high price for that. Nevertheless, neither crying nor laments from the distant past, nor the self-victimization are the subject of my speech today. I would like to warn you, dear friends, of what had happened to Serbia, a precedent that is being used and abused in different parts of the world; to warn you of the Pandora’s box that was opened neither two, nor five years ago, but much before, and that everybody is so loudly silent about.