TIRANA, Feb 17 ATA/ – Kosovo marks 17 years of independence on Monday.
A series of events are planned to celebrate seventeen years since the country declared independence, with Albania’s and Kosovo flags waving in Pristina’s main squares.
As tradition has it, the festive events kick off with the Kosovo government meeting, the Kosovo flag raising ceremony and tributes to the Monument to the Missing and the Memorial of Murdered Children and the Heroines Monument, to former President Ibrahim Rugova, the activist of the national cause Adem Demaçi, and the “Adem Jashari” Memorial Complex in Prekaz.
The Kosovo Security Force and Kosovo Police will parade in George Bush Square, while the Independence Concert will be staged at Skanderbeg Square.
The first scientific conference on crimes committed during the war in Kosovo will take place on Monday. A state reception by the president, speaker of parliament and prime minister of Kosovo, and a solemn concert by the Kosovo Philharmonic Orchestra will follow.
Kosovo declared its independence on February 17, 2008 and the country has been recognized by more than 110 countries around the world.
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