UAE envoy participates in Armistice Day in Serbia

11/13/2015 12:46:54 PM

(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM))

BELGRADE 13th November 2015 (WAM)UAE Ambassador to Serbia Juma Rashid Al Dhaheri participated in the Armistice Day held in the Serbian capital Belgrade to perpetuate the memory of soldiers who fell in World War I (WWI) and to honour families of the victims.

On the observance ceremony the UAE ambassador along with senior Serbian officials and ambassadors and representatives of the diplomatic community in Serbia laid a wreath at the Memorial Ossuary of the Defenders of Belgrade in WWI at the Military Cemetery in Belgrade.

Armistice Day is commemorated every year on November 11 to mark the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany to end World War I. The signing of The Armistice took place on November 11 1918 in Marshal Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne France.

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