Armistice Day in World War I(BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/MO)
The state holiday of Armistice Day in World War I was marked in Serbia on Nov. 11, with Serbian Parliament Speaker Ivica Dacic and the minister for labor, employment, veterans' and welfare issues, Darija Kisic Tepavcevic, laying a wreath at the Memorial Ossuary of the Defenders of Belgrade in the First World War.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic decorated deserving individuals and institutions. The new Serbian defense minister, Nebojsa Stefanovic, laid a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier on Mount Avala in the morning.
The symbol of the Armistice Day in Serbia is the flower Natalie's ramonda.
The emblem of the holiday in Serbia, which is worn on the lapel, consists of motifs of the Albanian Memorial decoration from the start of the 20th century – a green-black ribbon surrounding the stylized presentation of a violet flower – Natalie's ramonda.
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