KUMROVEC, May 20 (Hina) - Over 10,000 people from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Italy gathered on Saturday in Kumrovec, the native village of the late Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito situated some 40 kilometres
northwest of Zagreb, to celebrate what was known during communist times as Youth Day.
KUMROVEC, May 20 (Hina) - Over 10,000 people from Croatia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Italy gathered on Saturday in Kumrovec, the
native village of the late Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito situated
some 40 kilometres northwest of Zagreb, to celebrate what was known during
communist times as Youth Day. The event, organised by the Croatian
association of World War II resistance fighters and the Federation of the Josip
Broz Tito Societies under the motto "Youth Is Joy, Joy Is Youth", was attended
by several prominent Croatian political figures, mainly from the Social
Democratic Party, as well as by the secretaries of the Indian and Egyptian
embassies.
Together with Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Egyptian
president Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghana's prime minister Kwame Nkrumah and
Indonesian president Achmed Sukarno, Tito founded the Non-Aligned Movement in
Belgrade in 1961.