The Victims of the Hejce Air Disaster Remembered in Kosovo

In the first part of the series of commemoration ceremonies the employees of the Liaison Office of the Slovak Republic in Pristina and of the Embassy of Hungary in Kosovo bowed their heads and laid wreaths at the monument standing at the water works situated near the one-time Czech and Slovak Military camp. Namely, this camp used to be the base of the Slovak peacekeepers killed in the aircraft accident during their mission in Kosovo. Their tasks contained i.a. the protection of the water works supplying the majority of the population of Kosovo with drinking water.

The Head of the Slovak Office Henrik Markuš, and on behalf of the Hungarian Embassy Vice-Ambassador Dr. István Sipos and First Secretary Imre Vékás-Kovács paid tribute to the memory of the victims during the arrangement.

At the same time, another commemoration was held in memory of the Slovak soldiers at the KFOR Headquarters, at the monument located in Camp “Film City", Pristina. During the arrangement, wreaths were laid by the Ambassador of Hungary in Kosovo, Lóránt Balla, Commander of KFOR Major General Salvatore Farina, and by the Representative of the Czech Embassy among others.

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