{"id":18682,"date":"2022-08-07T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&p=18682"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:15:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:15:35","slug":"president-milanovic-at-307th-sinjska-alka-tournament-here-i-see-the-croatian-dalmatian-world-warm-smiling-and-light-hearted","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-at-307th-sinjska-alka-tournament-here-i-see-the-croatian-dalmatian-world-warm-smiling-and-light-hearted\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 at 307th Sinjska Alka Tournament: Here I see the Croatian, Dalmatian world \u2013 warm, smiling and light-hearted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThis region is special, a region of a Croatian identity from where I originate myself, which is a coincidence, but to me an important one. The duality of Alka is significant \u2013 a masculine, warlike, rough discipline, soldierly and victorious \u2013 on the other hand with a feminine genetic code woven into it \u2013 the gentler, Marian, maternal part related to Mary, the patroness, Our Lady, the virgin, known to us as Our Lady of Sinj,\u201d said the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 at the opening of his address at the 307th<\/sup> Sinjska Alka lancing tournament, which he attended today together with the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Milanovi\u0107 explained that being religious is not needed to understand that the Cetinska Krajina region and its people have endured hardship in the distant and more recent past and how the people there \u2013 by some \u201cmiracle\u201d and with the help of their patroness Our Lady of Sinj \u2013 became what they are today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIdentity irrevocably and permanently came with the siege of Sinj, and because of those things that other parts of Croatia do not have. This identity is special because the Alka and similar tournaments were also held in Makarska, even earlier than in Sinj, in towns all over Dalmatia, in Zadar, but only here they have survived. And that is why on the 307th<\/sup> anniversary of the Alka and on the 27th<\/sup> anniversary of the glorious victory of the Croatian Army in Operation Storm, the tradition is alive. We must be faithful to it, but also know that it should be interpreted in a moderate, appropriate and thoughtful way. Times are different now. Turks and Ottomans are no longer our enemies. We want to believe they are our friends. We want to believe they understand the problems and difficulties faced by the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina today, which are not the same as 300 years ago, but they exist, and we would appreciate help,\u201d the President told those present at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Milanovi\u0107 extended a warm welcome to his Slovenian counterpart President Pahor, whom he considers a friend of Croatia and his personal friend, saying he was glad that President Pahor came today. \u201cOur friend, my friend Slovenian President Borut Pahor is here, a man who has done a lot for the good faith and good spirit between Croatia and Slovenia. These days we can see that the Slovenian government is finally, after seven years of misunderstanding, removing the ugly wire fencing that divided Croatia and Slovenia and whose victims were above all people as well as wildlife. This is a chivalrous move, in the spirit of Alka in a way. I welcome the removal of unnecessary borders between close and friendly peoples,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe world today is like a dandelion in the wind. I\u2019m only afraid that someone will sneeze and everything will scatter. The world today is there, where everyone sees their own world. Here I see the Croatian, Dalmatian world. It is our world \u2013 warm, smiling, cheerful, light-hearted, and in a world like this we can rest assured that we will still be around in 300 years. All the best! Long live the Alka!\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 said in conclusion of his address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of the 307th<\/sup> Sinjska Alka, Presidents Milanovi\u0107 and Pahor toured the exhibition \u201cMe\u0161trovi\u0107 and Sikirica \u2013 Portraits of Contemporaries,\u201d showcased in the Sikirica Gallery in the Alka Halls, under the expert guidance of exhibition curators Dragana Modri\u0107, Barbara Vujanovi\u0107 and Dalibor Pran\u010devi\u0107. After viewing the exhibition, the two Presidents attended a reception hosted by the Alka duke, where the President of the Alka Knights Society of Sinj Stipe Juki\u0107 presented them with gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Frano Ivkovi\u0107 was proclaimed the winner of the 307th<\/sup> Sinjska Alka at the end of the tournament, President Milanovi\u0107 extended his congratulations and presented a gift to him and said: \u201cTake this gift, you and your squire, carry it proudly through the Cetinska Krajina region and win next year as well!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adviser to the President of the Republic for Human Rights and Civil Society Melita Muli\u0107, Adviser to the President of the Republic for Foreign and European Policy Neven Pelicari\u0107 and Head of the Military Office of the Cabinet for Defense and National Security Rear Admiral Predrag Stipanovi\u0107 attended this year\u2019s Sinjska Alka tournament alongside President Milanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHOTO: Office o the President of the Republic of Croatia \/ Marko Beljan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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