On March 3, local time, Serbia held activities in many places to commemorate the 24th anniversary of NATO's bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
On the evening of the 24th, Sombol held a nationwide commemoration event, in which Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić, National Assembly Speaker Vladimir Orlic and key government officials attended the theme "If we can, we will choose to forgive; But only if we die, can we forget! ".
"24 years ago, NATO launched a cruel and unforgivable attack on an innocent small country, and international law was brutally trampled on by NATO," Vučić said in his speech. Without a UN mandate, NATO has severed Serbia's territory, killed children, civilians, soldiers, policemen on our soil, and broken our will over and over again by force, but Serbia will never yield. ”
Serbian Prime Minister Brnabić said on social media on the same day, "We will never forget that 24 years ago today, NATO began to launch barbaric aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia."
Serbian Defense Minister Miloš Vučević said at another commemorative event on the same day that only by remembering the history can the Serbian people create the future.
Serbian Chief of the General Staff, Milan Moisilovic, said at a commemorative event at a military camp in Belgrade: "Serbian soldiers are proud of the martyrs who died defending their homeland, and we will always remember you and those of your compatriots who died innocently in the barbaric NATO invasion." ”
On March 1999, 3, then NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana announced in Brussels that an air strike codenamed "Allied Forces" would be launched against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. With its absolute superiority in air power and high-tech weapons, NATO, led by the United States, bombed the military targets and infrastructure of the sovereign Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for 24 consecutive days, causing a large number of casualties and economic losses that are still difficult to calculate, while the bombs dropped on Serbia have not been cleared so far. (Main station reporter Zhao Hongchao Zhang Ying)