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Ambassador pays tribute to World War I victims

27.07.2014 | Aktualizováno: 30.07.2014 / 09:16

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On 27 July 2014, on the eve of the World War One Centenary, Ambassador Jiří Šitler paid tribute to WW1 victims. He laid a wreath at the Military Cemetery of Ghencea in Bucharest.

The ceremony organized by the Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU  at the Italian and Romanian Mausoleum was attended by the diplomatic and military corps and accompanied by a military band concert.

A number of Czech volunteers fought and fell on the Romanian side at Dobrogea in 1916.  Among those buried in Romania are soldiers from the Czech minority in Romanian Banat who fought in the Austro-Hungarian Army and also in Czechoslovak Legions.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo and the 100th anniversary of  the outbreak of the First World War, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Bucharest organized an exhibition “Art in trenches of the First World War” in Cercul Militar National (Central Army House) in Bucharest.