17-09-2014, 07:44 PM
CROWN PRINCE MEETS RUSSIAN FEDERATION IPA DELEGATION AND ATTENDS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “GREAT WAR AND BEGINNING OF THE NEW WORLD”
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II met today with delegation of International Police Association of the Russian Federation, led by President Mr Aleksej Gankin, today at the Royal Palace, and after that, together with HRH Crown Princess Katherine attended the opening of the International Conference “Great War and beginning of the new World” at the Sava Center in Belgrade.
The Crown Prince met with the delegation of International Police Association, led by President Mr Aleksej Gankin, in the Blue Salon of the Royal Palace. This delegation is starting a several day visit to Serbia, and their host is International Police Association of Serbia and their branch in Kosovsko Pomoravlje.
Mr Aleksej Gankin thanked His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II for welcoming them, and emphasized that Russian and Serbian people are brothers and that it was great honour for him to be at the Royal Palace today, a Palace designed by the great Russian architect Nikola Krasnov. He also thanked for the great support that Crown Prince is giving to the International Police Association, and expressed his hopes that such meetings will continue in the future.
Crown Prince Alexander II welcomed Mr Aleksej Gankin and his colleagues, and said he was happy to have them as his guest at the Royal Palace today. “I am thrilled that International Police Associations of Serbia and Russia have such a good cooperation and close connections”, said Crown Prince.
Mr Milorad Petkovic, President International Police Association of Serbia and Mr Dobrivoje Stojanovic, were at the meeting.
Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine attended the opening of the International Conference “Great War and beginning of the new World” organized by Russian societies, with a Russian state delegation with the deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia, Prof Dr. Oliver Antic, Councilor to President of Serbia, Mr Aleksej Meskov, deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Mr Vladimir Jakunjin, president of the Fund of St. Andrew the First Called delivered speeches, while greeting letters of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Mr Sergey Nirishkin, Speaker of the Russian Duma were read.
The First World War changed the geo-political map of Europe and the world, caused huge suffering and deaths, and lessons we could have learned are even more actual today, in the light of Ukraine crisis, it has been said at the conference. Serbia has suffered greatest losses in human lives, and lost one sixth of the population, and no forgery of the history must be allowed.