20.07.2019.
Minister Vulin and children from the 'Friendship Camp' visit exhibition Defence 78
Defence minister Aleksandar Vulin, accompanied by children who are staying in the 'Friendship Camp' in Belgrade, has visited today an exhibition of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces 'Defence 78' dedicated to marking 20 years of the country's defence from the NATO aggression, at the Museum of the City of Belgrade.
Accompanied by the children from Kosovo and Metohija, Preševo, Bujanovac and the surroundings of Pakrac and their chaperones, Minister Vulin made a tour of the exhibition setting and presented to them the most important segments. Speaking to the children and the organisers of the Camp, Minister Vulin pointed out that the exhibition they had the opportunity to visit is a way to protect from oblivion what had happened in 1999, and thanked them for their visit.
As organiser of the traditional humanitarian Friendship Camp Miloš Stojković pointed out, children from Kosovo and Metohija, Bujanovac, Preševo and Pakrac and surroundings are in Belgrade and during their visit to the Serbian capital they will make a tour of important Serbian institutions, spiritual and cultural sights. According to him, through the Friendship Camp, for the tenth year in a row, the Hilanadar monastery, as the house of all Serbs, wants to show the children from the endangered areas that it is with them.Stojković also thanked the Ministry of Defence and, in particular, Minister Vulin, who has always been of assistance to the humanitarian Friendship Camp and supported it, especially for making the tour of the 'Defence 78' setting, because it is important, he added, that these little ones, who are our future, see and know what marked the years that are behind us.
More than 300 children aged seven to 14 together with 150 volunteers, chaperones, guides and medical workers will pass through the camp and they will visit, in several groups, many sights of Belgrade, cultural institutions and museums while outside Belgrade they will visit Oplenac, the monasteries of Ravanica and Manasija.
The exhibition ‘Defence 78’ by Dušan Jovović is a project initiated by the Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces, and the exhibition is a multimedia and interactive setup which for the first time displays video and printed materials which have not been presented to the public so far because of the strength of their impact and the way in which they were recorded back in 1999. The item is divided into eight segments, while visual artistry rests upon authentic artefacts from 1998 and 1999.The exhibition is a unique way to show the heroic defence of the country during 78 days of NATO aggression, which started by an attack on the FR Yugoslavia on 24th March 1999, without approval of the United Nations Security Council, and it is dedicated to the killed military and police personnel and civilians including, unfortunately, many children.
