First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic visited Bizerte today, where a memorial plaque was placed for the Serbian soldiers who died at the site of the disembarkment of the Serbian army.
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Serbia will never forget help of Tunisian people
Belgrade/Bizerte,
12 March 2019
On the second day of his official visit to the Republic of Tunisia, Dacic laid wreaths at the Serbian military cemetery and recalled that the Serbian army, after a long Calvary, disembarked at this place - in the old port of Bizerte on 9 January 1916.
With this act, we want to thank the authorities and citizens of Bizerte for the immense assistance to our army and citizens in those difficult times, which is when a genuine and lasting friendship between our two peoples was forged, Dacic said and added that it is believed that more than 61,000 Serbs , soldiers and refugees went through North Africa during the First World War.
He added that more than 41,000 members of the Serbian army were treated in the Tunisian and Algerian hospitals, a little over 3,000 died and the deceased were buried at a total of 24 cemeteries in Tunisia and Algeria, of which only three are known with certainty today.
Two of them are in Tunisia – a chapel with a mausoleum in Bizerte and one cemetery in Menzel Bourguiba, and one in Dely Ibrahim in Algeria, Dacic said.
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