05.12.2016.
Laying wreaths on the occasion of the Veterans Day
The delegation of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces led by the Guard Commander Major General Milomir Todorovic accompanied by Brigadier General Stojan Konjikovac, the Head of Human Resources Department in General Staff and Brigadier General Dejan Jankovic, Chief of Staff in Training Command, laid wreaths today at the New Cemetery in Belgrade on the occasion of the Veterans Day.The three-member delegation laid wreaths at the Memorial Ossuary of the killed in Serbian-Ottoman wars and Serbian-Bulgarian war, at the Memorial Ossuary of defenders of Belgrade in the First World War and the Monument to defenders of Belgrade in the Second World War.
On the occasion of the Veterans Day, the Serbian Armed Forces Chief of General Staff General Ljubisa Dikovic hosted on Friday in the Great War Hall of the Old General Staff a reception for their representatives and presented traditional and veterans’ associations and organizations with the military awards in recognition of the successful cooperation with the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces.
The Veterans Day was marked in all commands, units and institutions of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces. As a sign of respect and recollection of those who gave their lives for their country, military delegations in cooperation with local governments and veterans’ associations laid wreaths at the Memorial Ossuary and the monuments to the killed and victims of liberation wars.
Veterans Day is marked on 4th December in the recollection of the day when, in 1912, the truce in the First Balkan War was signed. About 400,000 soldiers of the Royal Serbian Armed Forces became "old warriors" and veterans according to modern language.
