Observance of 19th anniversary from President Boris Trajkovski’s death
Skopje, 26 February 2023 (MIA) - North Macedonia observes Sunday 19 years from the death of President Boris Trajkovski, who was killed in a plane crash in Rotimlja near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Family members, delegations and citizens will lay flowers at Trajkovski's grave in Skopje.
A delegation of the President's Office led by President Stevo Pendarovski will lay flowers at the grave of President Boris Trajkovski in the Skopje-based Butel cemetery.
Also, a delegation of the Government, including Deputy PM Slavica Grkovska, Minister of Local Self-Government Risto Penov, and Deputy Minister of Transport Bekim Rexhepi will lay flowers at President Trajkovski's grave in the Butel cemetery. A delegation of North Macedonia's Army will also pay tribute to the former president.
A delegation of the Parliament led by Vice-President Goran Misovski and including MP Snezhana Kaleska-Vancheva and MP Toni Jarevski will also lay flowers at Skopje-based Butel cemetery.
In Strumica, a delegation of the Government led by Labor Minister Jovanka Trenchevska will lay flowers at the monument of President Boris Trajkovski.
A delegation of the Government including Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, as well as representatives from the President's Office will travel to Mostar, to lay flowers at the commemorative trait in Rotimlja, the site of the plane crash.
In addition, Bosnia and Herzegovina top officials will also pay tribute in Rotimlja.
President Trajkovski died in a plane crash on 26 February 2004.
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.
