Today is Remebrance Day for those who fell in the two World Wars. While PM Iveta Radicova laid a wreathe in New York, memorial ceremonies were taking place throughout Slovakia.
Defence minister Lubomir Galko joined members of the Slovak Armed Forces, local government, the US embassy and war veterans today in Trencianske Teplice to remember the dead and lay wreathes at three separate memorials.
They firstly remembered the men of the US Air Force at the memorial at Kamenicka dolina, then the memorial on the Slovak National Uprising (1944), with the third venue at the memorial for the victims of World War I, news wire TASR reports.