Commemoration

State leadership lays wreaths at Mirogoj for All Saints' Day

01.11.2011 u 13:41

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On the occasion of All Saints' Day, November 1, Croatia's state leadership and delegations of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party and the City of Zagreb laid wreaths at Zagreb's central Mirogoj cemetery.

President Ivo Josipovic laid wreaths and lit candles at the Wall of Pain monument, in the Alley of Croatian Homeland War Soldiers, at the grave of Croatia's first president, Franjo Tudjman, at the tomb of (WWII) National Heroes and the grave of Ivica Racan, prime minister in the 2000-2003 period.

Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks laid wreaths and lit candles at the Wall of Pain monument, in the Alley of Homeland War Soldiers, and at Tudjman's grave.

A delegation of the City of Zagreb, led by Mayor Milan Bandic, laid wreaths and lit candles at the Wall of Pain monument, at Racan's grave, at the tomb of National Heroes, in the Alley of Homeland War Soldiers, at Tudjman's grave and at the common grave of unidentified victims of the 1991-1995 Homeland War.

Wreaths were also laid by a delegation of the HDZ party.