Representatives of the Serbian delegation, arrived in Tskhinval to participate in the celebration of the Republic Day, have met with lecturers and students of the South Ossetia State University. The delegation included members of the football team "Dynamic -Trade" - the reigning champion of the Serbian annual indoor soccer tournament, named after Dmitry Popovich, the priest Father Rodevoy, as well as the head of the Charitable Foundation of the Russian - Serbian friendship Roman Ilyushkin.
At the beginning of the meeting Roman Ilyushkin told the South Ossetian students about social, political and cultural life of Serbia, the war imposed on the Serbian people in 1999 by the U.S. and Western countries.
"Within three months, the southern part of the independent Serbia – Kosovo- was being bombed and shelled. Kosovo is the cradle of the Serbian ethnos, here is the first capital of medieval Serbia – Prizran. Now only Albanians live in Kosovo, they expelled all the Serb population, the indigenous Orthodox Serbs "- said Ilyushkin.
He has also noted that South Ossetia and Serbia share common goals and objectives.
"We came here open-hearted; we have played a friendly football match in the name of unity between the Ossetian and the Serbian people. Serbian people are very fond of you; the common pain and sufferings have united South Ossetian and Serbian peoples", - he added.
South Ossetian students were addressed by Father Rodevoy, who noted the importance of establishing friendly relations between the youth of South Ossetia and Serbia.
"You are the future and the hope of the people of South Ossetia. We must strengthen our unity, development of friendly contacts at the level of universities, colleges, schools, at the level of the Orthodox Church," - he stressed.
The guests presented gifts to the South Ossetian University.
In turn, pro-rector of the South Ossetian State University Natalie Gassieva thanked the guests for the desire to establish friendly relations with the youth of South Ossetia.
