Wreaths Laid to Commemorate WWI Armistice Day
Monday, 11.11.2024 | Culture and traditions
Representing the Supreme Commander of the Serbian Armed Forces and President of the Republic Aleksandar Vučić, Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević laid a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Hero on Mt. Avala in commemoration of the World War I Armistice Day.
He was accompanied by Minister of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Nemanja Starović and Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff Gen. Milan Mojsilović.
Prime Minister Vučević wrote in the memorial book that an entire generation ended their life because of Serbia and that 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, honor, 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!” wrote the Prime Minister in the memorial book.
Armistice Day in the First World War is marked today in Serbia with a series of events ceremony, laying wreaths and honoring, in memory of the 11 November 1918, when an armistice was signed, ending the First World War.
A Ministry of Defense 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.
Serbia lost 1.24 million people in the First World War, i.e. 28 percent of the entire population according to the 1914 census.
