Vucic: Time to live and work for Serbia

TEKERIS, Aug 19 (Tanjug) - It is time that we live and work for Serbia like our ancestors, who gave everything for freedom and the country in World War I, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday in Tekeris, near Loznica, at the main ceremony commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Cer, in which Serbian forces won the first Allied victory in the Great War.

"We now have a duty and obligation to work and live for Serbia, just like soldiers fought and died for Serbia a hundred years ago. It is time to once again give the country at least part of what was given to it by those who gave it everything. It is time that we stop moping and complaining and make an effort for our Serbia. It is time for our sacrifice and our effort," Vucic said.

"All those who believed in freedom had faith in Serbia in World War I, and from that faith and sacrifice emerged a country in which the modern generation has the obligation to build what emerged from the sacrifice of ancestors," he noted.

"We came here to Cer to become a free nation that is worthy of respect, and we believed in victory," Vucic said.

"The name for which lives were lost and for which we were victorious must again become our goal, our dream and legacy. That is why we must pledge to our ancestors that we will make their dream come true and that we will not find it hard to live and work for our Serbia, to build it and get it back to where it belongs," Vucic said.

"That is our main job, so let us do it. A hundred years have passed and now is the right time. I am confident that we can do this," Vucic said.

"We have wasted much time on the wrong decisions, regimes and wars, but we are back and we are ready to capture the Tekeris and Cer of our...