State leadership lays wreaths on Independence Day

Joint wreaths of the president of the republic, the parliament speaker and the prime minister were laid at Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery on Tuesday on the occasion of Independence Day, which Croatia observers on October 8.
 

Deputy Parliament Speaker Nenad Stazic, Labour and Pension System Minister Mirando Mirsic and War Veterans' Minister Predrag Matic laid the wreaths and lit candles at the Wall of Pain monument, the People's Heroes Vault, Croatia's first President Franjo Tudjman and at the grave of unidentified Homeland War victims.

Croatia is celebrating Independence Day today, commemorating 8 October 1991, when the Croatian parliament unanimously decided to sever all state and legal ties based on which Croatia and the other republics and provinces made up the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).

Veterans' Minister Matic underlined the importance of today's date for Croatia's recent history, adding however that unfortunately people often did not recognise it, unlike some other national holiday.

(Hina)
 

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