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By KINGS OFFICE RESPONDENTS | 2024-10-23
President of Serbia Aleksander Vucic, on Monday hosted His Majesty King Mswati III to a brief ‘army day’, where a glimpse of the Serbian army prowess was put on show.
The army showcased some of its latest technology equipment to the king, demonstrating how artificial intelligence has emerged as the preferred weapon. He also had an opportunity to witness several combat drills by army personnel.
Accompanying the president at the Military Technical Centre were the Minister for Defence Bratislava Gasic, assistant Minister for Material Resources Nened Miloradovic and Chief of General Staff, General Hossilovic.
Later that day, His Majesty visited the Vlatacom Institute, which is a private science and research centre that develops software systems for the military, among other sectors.
It boasts of providing secure information and communication technology, critical asset protection and border control, applied mathematics and electronics with cryptography features, multi-sensor integration, biometrics, image and radio waves, intelligent signal processing, with implementation in identity management and surveillance devices and targeted systems.
Vladimir Cizel, founder of the institute, welcomed the king and expressed his deep love for Eswatini.
After a presentation on the work of the centre, His Majesty King Mswati III congratulated Cizel for sharing their success—having grown from humble beginnings to where they are today.
“This is due to your commitment and dedication. You have a strong, capable team and it is good to see advancement in technology, which is important for such an institute,” he said.
The king said the country looked forward to working with the institute to learn new things, particularly about how to transfer some of this technology back home.
“Yesterday, we were with students from Eswatini who are studying in Serbia and discovered that many of them are obtaining skills on the engineering side. We have an opportunity to tap into and make use of these skills.
This is an assignment for us all; we have to help them find jobs. We need to come up with facilities that can put their skills to practice,” he said. He also urged Cizel to look at being based in Eswatini in order to harness and access the opportunities on the African continent.
“Doing so will give you access to and benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). We wish this institute immense success that will help it grow much bigger in the near future,” he said.
The king also thanked Cizel for assisting emaswati in obtaining tertiary education in Serbia and encouraged him to work together with Eswatini to bring more Eswatini students to Serbia.
Cizel said he had worked with African states for about 35 years and regards Eswatini as a special country to him.
‘‘Since meeting your country's prime minister and foreign affairs minister in Brussels, I have been working with Eswatini for the past six years. ‘‘The government appointed me to assist in bringing African students to Serbia, so I suggested scholarships for Emaswati.
“We look forward to increasing the scholarship allocation after 2027; we will start with adding 15, and hopefully we will eventually get to 100,” he told the king.
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