A bust of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, authored by Sara Nikolic and gifted to the University of Banja Luka by M:tel (Telekom), at the proposal of the Consulate-General, was officially unveiled on 6 November, on the occasion of marking the 230th anniversary of the birth of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, the reformer and creator of the modern Serbian language and literature.






Consul-General Vladimir Nikolic said that the erection of a bust honouring Vuk Karadzic in Banja Luka reaffirmed the commitment of Serbia to the Republic of Srpska.

"The bust of Vuk has been placed here, inter alia, to inspire and encourage, to imbue us with the sense of daringness. For, if Vuk was able to act in the way he did, with no salary, no scholarship and no funds, with no "project funding", in the popular modern-day jargon, with no car and the Internet, physically challenged and with a prosthetic wooden peg-leg, and with the care for thirteen children – if he was able to walk into the world and secure his place in eternity, with or without all the aforementioned circumstances, this obliges us to follow suit, and the least we can do is not to forget", Consul Nikolic pointed out.