ZAGREB, Oct 8 (Hina) - On the occasion of the Croatian national holiday - Independence Day - numerous delegations on Tuesday laid wreaths in front of the Cross built in the honour of Croatian soldiers at Zagreb's central cemetery
called Mirogoj.
ZAGREB, Oct 8 (Hina) - On the occasion of the Croatian national
holiday - Independence Day - numerous delegations on Tuesday laid
wreaths in front of the Cross built in the honour of Croatian
soldiers at Zagreb's central cemetery called Mirogoj. #L#
President Stjepan Mesic was the first to place wreaths on Tuesday
morning.
After that, delegations of the parliament, led by deputy presidents
Zdravko Tomac and Ivica Kostovic, and of the government, led by
Premier Ivica Racan, also laid wreaths.
Wreaths were laid by delegations of the armed forces, the
ministries of defence, interior affairs and war veterans, several
associations of war veterans, Zagreb authorities and political
parties SDP and HDZ.
(hina) ms