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Serbia observes Statehood Day

Xinhua, February 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Serbia marked its Statehood Day on Sunday with wreaths-laying ceremonies and events to honor its outstanding citizens.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic laid a wreath to the Memorial of the Unknown Soldier atop the Avala mountain in Belgrade.

Serbian children should be raised in compliance with the country's heritage, he wrote in a memorial book.

Nikolic also awarded decorations to domestic and foreign figures including American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, Serbian linguist and philologist Ivan Klajn, the Chief-of-staff of the Serbian Armed Forces, the entire Serbian Water Polo team and many others.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic laid a wreath on Sunday in Belgrade to the monument dedicated to Dimitrije Davidovic, author of the first Serbian constitution written in 1835.

Ceremony to mark the Statehood Day was also held in the city of Kragujevac, where the first constitution was adopted.

Serbian Statehood Day, which falls on February 15 every year, commemoreates the 1804 uprising against the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the country's first constitution. Enditem