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A Yugoslav general said on Sunday that "Yugoslavia and (its republic of) Serbia will never be reconciled to losing (Serbia's U.N.-secured province of) Kosovo-Metohija."
General Srboljub Trajkovic, commander of the First Army, was speaking in front of a monument to Serbian soldiers in Tekeris, near Loznica, Serbia, at a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Cer.
Trajkovic vowed that, "unless the United Nations does its job, by all means, we shall regain Kosovo-Metohija."
He spoke about the historic importance of the Battle of Cer in which the Serbian army, led by the brilliant strategist Stepa Stepanovic, defeated the Austro-Hungarian army and sent it retreating in disarray across the River Drina.
The four-day Battle of Cer, in which the Serbian army won its first victory against Austria-Hungary, ended on Aug. 18, 1914, and was the first allied victory in the First World War.
Trajkovic said that "those seeking to redraw the world have not abandoned their unattained goals from the First and Second World Wars, and new rulers have also appeared in the guise of so-called global democrats.
"The United States, at the helm of NATO, demonstrates the world's single idea - there will be democracy where capital has an interest," he said.