Serbia will neither surrender its province of Kosovo and Metohija nor join the NATO alliance, said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic at a commemoration event marking the 25th anniversary of NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia on March 24.

On the Remembrance Day for the Victims of the NATO Aggression on Yugoslavia, people gathered in Prokuplje to pay tribute to the victims of NATO bombings. In 1999, the U.S.-led NATO forces carried out continuous airstrikes for 78 days against Yugoslavia, leaving more than 8,000 civilians dead or injured and nearly 1 million more displaced.