SARAJEVO, March 3 (Hina) - The remains of Macedonia's President Boris Trajkovski, and another eight Macedonians, who died in a plane crash in southern Bosnia last Thursday, were transferred from Sarajevo to Skopje on Wednesday
afternoon.
SARAJEVO, March 3 (Hina) - The remains of Macedonia's President Boris
Trajkovski, and another eight Macedonians, who died in a plane crash
in southern Bosnia last Thursday, were transferred from Sarajevo to
Skopje on Wednesday afternoon.#L#
Present at Sarajevo's airport were Bosnia-Herzegovina officials,
Macedonian defence and justice ministers Vlado Buckovski and Idzet
Memeti respectively, and Macedonian Army Deputy Chief of Staff
Miroslav Stojanovski.
In a farewell speech delivered at the airport, the chairman of
Bosnia's Presidency, Sulejman Tihic, said the death of President
Trajkovski was a great loss not only for Macedonia, but also for
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The plane carrying the remains of President Trajkovski, his six
associates and two pilots of the plane, who died in last Thursday's
accident, is expected to arrive in Skopje at 14.00 hours.
So far, 24 foreign delegations have announced their arrivals at the
Macedonian president's funeral, scheduled for Friday. Croatian
President Stjepan Mesic, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Romanian
President Ion Iliescu, Serbia-Montenegro's President Svetozar Marovic,
head of the Bosnian Presidency Sulejman Tihic and Montenegro's
President Filip Vujanovic are expected to come to Skopje for the
funeral. Other foreign delegations will be led by prime ministers and
foreign ministers. Delegations of the European Union, the Organisation
for Security and Cooperation in Europe and NATO will also attend the
funeral.
Trajkovski, his four associates, two body guards and two pilots were
killed in last Thursday's accident when a plane carrying them to
Mostar crashed into hills some 15 kilometres south-east of this
Bosnian city. Macedonia's delegation was to attend an international
business conference in Mostar.
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