11.11.2024.
Wreaths laid to commemorate WWI Armistice Day
Representing the President of the Republic and Supreme Commander of the Serbian Armed Forces Aleksandar Vučić, Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević, accompanied by Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Nemanja Starović and Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff Gen. Milan Mojsilović, laid a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Hero on Mt. Avala in commemoration of the World War I Armistice Day.
After the wreath-laying ceremony, which included the playing of the Serbian national anthem and an honour guard provided by the Serbian Armed Forces guardsmen, Prime Minister Vučević wrote the following message in the memorial book:“An entire generation ended its life because of Serbia. An entire youth remained in the fields of Cer, Kolubara, Mačkov kamen, Kaymakchalan, all the way to Karavanke. A sacrifice unparalleled in the history of Europe.
Those people died and starved, fought and bled, but they did not give up Serbia. Our flag, honour, freedom and face. Those were duty and faith. That was a pledge of freedom given to Lazar's Serbia.
Thank you for giving all you had. Thank you for paving the way for us. Thank you for making us worthy of being called your descendants. Our only pledge is to be worthy of you.
May Serbia live forever! Let it be known that on this day we triumphed as a people and as a country!"
A Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces delegation, led by the commander of the Training Command, Maj. Gen. Zoran Nasković, laid a wreath at the Memorial Ossuary of WWI Defenders of Belgrade at the New Cemetery, as part of the commemoration of WWI Armistice Day.
The delegation also laid wreaths at the French Military Cemetery, at the Memorial Ossuary of Russian soldiers killed in WWI and at the Commonwealth War Cemetery.
On this day in 1918, the Great War ended. To honour millions of innocent people killed in the war, commemorations are held throughout the world every November 11 to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers, officers and civilians.