It was organized as part of the ministry’s campaign marking the 80th anniversary of the death of the great scientist Nikola Tesla, designed to remember one of the world’s greatest minds and foster a culture of remembrance of the ties between the two countries, according to the announcement.
“Serbs and Americans have a long common history, longer than 140 years of cooperation between our countries. We built that history together even in the most difficult moments, when our grandfathers fought side by side for the freedom and democracy of our people,” said Dacic, adding that “long common history” was marked by people who joined two peoples and lived and created with each other.
The minister spoke after a cultural program in which members of the Serbian choir Kolegium muzikum also took part.
“Here, in our museum of diplomacy, you can see memories of part of our rich and often turbulent history. That history was built by people like you and me – some through diplomacy, and some through science and culture,” said Dacic, wishing musicians from a prestigious American university had a successful concert in Kolarac on March 16.
Dacic then presented the symbolic Tesla diplomatic passports to Maestro Michael Pratt, music director of the Princeton orchestra, and the doyens of the orchestra, students Natalia Erbelas Solano, Isabela Kahn and Jiu Watson, making them ambassadors of the Tesla Year of the Tesla People.