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Armistice Day in First World War observed

Belgrade, 11 November 2006

Representatives of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy and the Ministry of Defence paid honours today to fallen soldiers of allied forces and laid wreaths at the cemetery of Commonwealth and the French military cemetery.

Author: Tanjug

The wreaths were also laid by representatives of the association of Yugoslav soldiers of the First World War (SUBNOR), the Society for cherishing the tradition of liberation wars before 1918, representatives of the embassies of Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Canada, Hungary, Germany, Romania, Russian Federation, the United States of America, Slovakia, France, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.

Representatives of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy, the Ministry of Defence, SUBNOR and the Society for cherishing the tradition of liberation wars before 1918, laid wreaths at the common grave of defenders of Belgrade of 1915 in the First World War and at the memorial common grave of Russian soldiers and officers fallen in the First World War, at the New Cemetery in Belgrade.

The ceremony of paying military and state honours is organised as a memory to hundreds of thousands of killed civilians and soldiers in the fight for liberation of Serbia in the First World War.

The Armistice Day is the anniversary of the official end of World War I, November 11, 1918 and it has been observed since 1919.