Vucevic: As long as our language and music are heard in Kosovo-Metohija, it will be ours

BELGRADE - As long as Serbs remain and survive in Kosovo-Metohija and as long as the Serbian language, Serbian music and the kolo dance are heard in the province, Kosovo-Metohija will be ours, Serbia's outgoing PM Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday.

At a reception for children from the Kosovo-Metohija villages of Koretiste and Prekovci, Vucevic said he was glad to see smiles on their faces and their positive energy in times that were not easy.

"Thank you, children, for remaining in Kosovo-Metohija with your parents, your grandmothers and grandfathers, your families and your teachers. You may be little, but I am certain you are more mature than your peers in central Serbia and that you understand the significance of your remaining and surviving where you and your families live. As long as our songs, our kolo and our language are heard, Kosovo will be ours. Do not let anyone take that away from you and cast who and what we are into oblivion - if we forget that, we will be lost," Vucevic said.

He said he was glad the children from Kosovo-Metohija, who are visiting Belgrade and Novi Sad, had had an opportunity to visit the Military Club of Serbia in Belgrade, built by King Alexander I Karadjordjevic, and that he believed children from Novi Sad would also have an opportunity to visit their peers in Kosovo-Metohija to better see and understand what Kosovo-Metohija was and what challenges Serbs in the province were facing and how brave they were.

"I want you to feel nice because this is your capital, the capital of Serbia, and Kosovo-Metohija is Serbia. This is the capital of our young people, wherever they may live," Vucevic said.