Dignitaries, citizens pay respects to Đinđić

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BELGRADE -- Mirko Cvetković, ministers, members of Zoran Đinđić’s family and others have observed the sixth anniversary of the late prime minister’s assassination.

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Dignitaries, citizens pay respects to Đinđić
12 March 2009 | 13:32 | Source: B92, FoNet, Beta, Tanjug
BELGRADE -- Mirko Cvetković, ministers, members of Zoran Đinđić’s family and others have observed the sixth anniversary of the late prime minister’s assassination.

(B92)
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The prime minister and other members of his cabinet placed a wreath in the forecourt of the government building, where Đinđić was killed six years ago.

A minute’s silence was observed in honor of the murdered prime minister by Deputy Prime Minister Jovan Krkobabić, Ministers Dragan Šutanovac, Saša Dragin, Mlađan Dinkić, Snežana Malović, Diana Dragutinović, Sulejman Ugljanin, Snežana Samardžić-Marković and Svetozar Čiplić.

Also in attendance were Ministers Srđan Srećković, Rasim Ljajić, Tomica Milosavljević, Žarko Obradović, Petar Škundrić, Slobodan Milosavljević, Jasna Matić and their colleagues.

The wreath carried the message: “To Dr. Zoran Đinđić, from the Republic of Serbia.”

Flowers were placed on Đinđić’s grave by members of his family, high-ranking officials and representatives of the Democratic Party (DS) and other parties.

Đinđić’s widow, Ružica, his son, Luka, and President and DS leader Boris Tadić also laid flowers on his grave at the Avenue of Heroes in the New Cemetery, along with Cvetković and DS MPs Nada Kolundžija, Bojan Pajtić, Šutanovac, Dušan Petrović, Oliver Dulić and Čiplić.

Đinđić’s mother, Mila Đinđić, and sister, Gordana Filipović, were the first to place flowers on the grave.

This morning several other members of Đinđić’s government gathered around the grave of the assassinated prime minister, including Gordana Matković, Goran Pitić, Aleksandar Vlahović, Gašo Knežević, Slobodan Milosavljević, Dragoslav Šumarac and Vojislav Milovanović.

Others who placed flowers on his grave included Dinkić, Tomica Milosavljević, Verica Kalanović, Jasna Matić, Samardžić-Marković, Srećković, Dragutinović, Goran Bogdanović, Dragin, Savo Milošević, Ružica Sokić and Svetozar Cvetković.

About 100 citizens waited to lay flowers on his grave at about 11:00 CET.