SPO president Vuk Draskovic will attend the traditional gathering for the first time also in his capacity as Serbia and Montenegro foreign minister. Also for the first time, the gathering will not be organised by the party, but by a committee in charge of nurturing liberation wars established within the Serbian Culture Ministry. The committee is chaired by SPO member and Culture Minister Dragan Kojadinovic.
Organisers have announced that senior representatives of a number of countries will attend.
The SPO claims that like the partisan movement, the Ravna Gora Chetnik movement was an antifascist movement during World War Two. The party moved a law equating the rights of members of the partisan and Chetnik movements. The Serbian parliament adopted the law, but it is not being applied because the parliament has failed to adopt regulations required for its implementation.
Tomorrow's gathering at Ravna Gora will mark the end of commemorations marking the day of victory over fascism in Serbia, which began on May 9.
The antifascists, Josip Broz Tito's partisans, have not made any comments.
The Chetnik movement's platform included the territorial expansion of Serbia. Its members committed crimes against non-Serbs, primarily Muslims and Croats, in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as against political opponents among the Serbian people.