11.11.2017.
Day of Armistice in the First World War Marked
With the highest state and military honours, Secretary General of the President of the Republic of Serbia Nikola Selaković, accompanied by Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin and the Guard Commander General Major Milomir Todorović, laid a laurel wreath on the Monument to Unknown Hero on Avala, on the occasion of the Day of Armistice in the First World War – 11th November.
The Secretary General of the President wrote in the memorial book:
“For almost a century, Serbia has been living in freedom, and there is an idea of freedom living in Serbia that you have founded. Your victory is not only military victory; it is absolute. It became a measure of our actions and the direction to the ultimate value – the idea of freedom. Serbian people will remember your sacrifice as long as it exists”.
With the anthem of the Republic of Serbia stricken up, Secretary General of the President of the Republic Nikola Selaković laid a wreath with a dedication – To the heroes of the Great War, from their proud descendants – President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić.
The central state ceremony on the occasion of the Day of Armistice, led by the Minister for Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, Zoran Đorđević, was held today at the Memorial Charnel House dedicated to the defenders of Belgrade in the First World War. The members of the Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces participated in the wreath lying ceremony and in the wreath lying ceremony at the French Military Cemetery, at the Memorial Charnel House of Russian soldiers fallen in the First World War and at the Commonwealth cemetery.
Day of Armistice in the First World War is observed in memory of 11th November 1918 when in France, in a special coach of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, truce was signed in the First World War. On that day, at 11 o’clock the truce started that Germany signed with Entente Powers, thus ending the hostilities on the Western front. It was in force until the final peace treaty in Versailles, on 28th June 1919.
In Serbia, Day of Armistice has been marked as a state holiday since 2012 and this year it was observed all over Serbia by an array of events in memory of the innocent victims from 1914 to 1918. The emblem of that holiday is a flower called Natalia’s Ramonda, which is an endangered species and grows on Kajmakčalan, and it is also known as the Fenix-flower, and apart from the flower, the emblem features a ribbon with the colours of Albanian memorial – black and green, placed above the purple flower.
