At Sunday’s ceremony in Paris marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, the place behind Vladimir Putin was given to Hashim Thaci.
Many are today commenting on the decision of the organizer, some consider it scandalous, and the media also write about “only the alphabetic order” being important.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said “the protocol for this event certainly did not reflect the relation of forces.”
When asked how they commented that some regional leaders were among the world’s five most powerful at the ceremony, he noticed that Kosovo President Hashim Thaci won the best position of all in the region.
“The president of Croatia that she was standing there, I could understand, because it has to do with the alphabet. There might have been some sense, although they were in the First World War on the opposite side. There was no Austria near five, but in my … “, said Vucic.
Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, Professor Dr. Dragan Simic, told Prva TV that a really big scandal was what happened with the places in Paris.
As he added, this is in some way a shift in history, and in 1918 some other winners were sitting in the front row.
“When it comes to the First World War, Serbia deserves first place, along with France, Great Britain, the countries of the First World War. And maybe three, four countries in the first row, and then everyone else. Maybe there was no place for anybody there. Some really did not exist as a state at that time,” Simic said.
At yesterday’s ceremony in Paris, on the occasion of marking the centenary since the end of the First World War, the place behind Vladimir Putin was given to Hashim Thaci.
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