Soon after Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic suggested that Belgrade should erect a monument to the 28th US President Woodrow Wilson, who occupied the White House from 1913 to 1921, the city assembly voted in favour, the Beta news agency reported.

The monument would be posted on a boulevard which would also be named after the US President who was also the leading architect of the League of Nations.

Vucic’s idea came soon after the US embassy in Belgrade made several video spots about the famous scientists who made the most of ther lives in the United States.

Wilson proclaimed July 28 ,1918 a Day of Prayer for Serbia for the country’s contribution during the Great War, and it was read in churches throughout the US.

Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D., LL.D., also known as Michael I. Pupin, a Serbian American physicist, physical chemist, philanthropist and patriot, took Serbia’s flag to Wilson on the same day and the President had it raised above the White House.

The video about the story, which many people in Serbia were not familiar with, was broadcast on TVs across the country for weeks as the US contribution to better relations with Serbia and its people and the reminder of how many Serbs contributed to different sciences living and working in the US.

At the same session, the members of the Belgrade Assembly adopted decision to erect a monument to soldiers, “the heroes from Kosare,” who “defended the country against NATO aggression.”

The Alliance used air strikes in 1999 to prevent what they said was the oppression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo by Belgrade police and army soldier.