FLAG OF FORMER SOCIALIST FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA HOISTED IN PARIS

PARIS, Nov 12 (Hina) - The flag with a star of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) was hoisted together with the flags of the U.S.A., Great Britain, Belgium and other countries in front of the Triumphant Arch of Victory in Paris on Thursday on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the cessation of hostilities, signed at the end of the First World War. The Croatian Ambassador to France, Branko Salaj, who was present at the ceremony of the celebration of that anniversary, was unpleasantly surprised at hoisting the flag of the state that had existed no more, and the flag under which the aggression against the Republic of Croatia had been launched. The Croatian Ambassador would request the explanation from the French Ministry of the Weterans, which had organized this ceremony. 120717 MET nov 93