The President of the Nikšić Municipal Assembly, Nemanja Vuković, together with representatives of the Army of Montenegro and SOBNOR, laid a wreath on the monument to Ljubo Čupić on the occasion of Statehood Day.
He reminded that Montenegro was internationally recognized as an independent state on July 13, 1878, and that on the same day in 1941, our ancestors raised a national uprising, making a huge contribution to the final collapse of the Nazi regime.
"All the challenges we face, which are not small, must be solved by respecting the demands imposed by the current socio-political moment, deeply aware of the sacrifice of our famous ancestors, but also of the obligations we have towards the generations to come. I congratulate all the citizens of Montenegro on the Day statehood, with the call to jointly build and preserve a free, prosperous, European Montenegro, firmly founded on the ideals of freedom, justice and fairness," said Vuković.
Kovačević laid a wreath on the grave of Pope Milan Milo Jovović
The President of the Municipality of Nikšić, Marko Kovačević, on the occasion of the National Day of Montenegro on July 13, laid a wreath on the grave of Pope Milan Milo Jovović, a participant in the liberation war of 1875-1878. years.
"His heroism remains an eternal example to which we should strive. On this significant day, we commemorate two great events: the Congress of Berlin - when Montenegro won its independence and the national uprising of 1941 - a symbol of resistance and the fight for freedom. These bright examples are road signs that our nation needs to be led, and we believe that by adopting the resolution on the genocide in Jasenovac, Mauthausen and Dachau, we finally got one act and one move of modern Montenegro that is in the spirit of the 1941th of July Uprising of XNUMX," Kovačević said on his FB page .
The essence of the whole story, according to him, is that if we all stand for a civil Montenegro, "reconciliation must come first of all between people who are descendants of people like Milo Jovović and our ancestors from the Thirteenth of July Uprising".
"Precisely the idea proposed by the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Andrija Mandić, during the July 13 award ceremony, about the restoration of the chapel on Lovcen, may be the one that will unite and reconcile us," said Kovačević.
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