Government delegations on Friday laid wreaths at the grave of President Boris Trajkovski in Skopje and his monument in Strumica, on the 17th anniversary from his death.
Defense Minister Radmila Shekerinska, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani and Deputy Minister of Environment and Physical Planning Hristina Odzhaklieska laid flowers on Trajkovski’s grave at the Skopje-based Butel cemetery.
A delegation comprised of Minister of Transport and Communications Blagoj Bochvarski and national coordinator for cultural development Robert Alagjozovski laid flowers at Trajkovski’s monument in Strumica.
“President Trajkovski is kept in our collective memory as a man of the people and for the people, and as a statesman of unwavering vision for our country as a society of all citizens, a factor of peace and stability in the region,” the Government says in a press release.
President Trajkovski died in a plane crash on 26 February 2004, when the US-made Beechcraft King Air 200 tried to land at the airport of Mostar, in southern Bosnia, in bad weather.
Trajkovski, President’s Office advisers Dimka Ilkova-Boshkovic, Risto Blazhevski and Anita Krishan-Lozanovska, Mile Krstevski from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, bodyguards Boris Velinov and Ace Bozhinovski, as well as pilots Marko Markovski and Branko Ivanovski were killed in the crash.
