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MOSTAR, February 26 (FENA) - The 16th anniversary of the plane crash in which Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski lost his life was commemorated at Matića brdo location near Mostar on Wednesday.
The delegation of North Macedonia was led by the Minister for Diaspora Edmond Ademi, while the Deputy Foreign Minister of BiH, Josip Brkić laid a wreath on behalf of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Minister Ademi said in his address that Trajkovski had left a deep mark not only in Macedonian society but throughout the region.
“Today, 16 years after the tragedy, and I believe in the coming years, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the region remember the great man and his work,” Ademi said.
Josip Brkić added that Trajkovski made a major contribution to the improvement of relations between the countries in the region.
Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the City of Mostar also laid flowers at the memorial to the victims.
Aircraft of the Macedonian government crashed on February 26, 2004 in the area of the village of Rotimlja near Mostar. Apart from Trajkovski, advisers from his office Dimka Ilkova-Bošković, Risto Blaževski and Anita Lozanovska, employee of the Macedonian Foreign Ministry Mile Krstevski, security detail members Boris Velinov and Ace Velinovski, and pilots Marko Markovski and Branko Ivanovski also lost their lives in the crash. They were scheduled to attend an international investment conference in Mostar that day.
The air crash investigation commission upon completing their inquiry into the cause of the accident concluded that the crash was a result of mistakes of the pilots, poor aircraft maintenance and adverse weather conditions.
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