Wreaths laid at Chinese embassy old location in Belgrade in memory of 1999 war

NEWS 07.05.202013:41
Ministarstvo za rad

The Chinese ambassador to Belgrade Chen Bo and Serbia’s Labour Minister Zoran Djordjevic observed a minute of silence and laid wreaths at the old location of the Chinese embassy where three reporters died when NATO bomb hit the building in 1999 air campaign against the then Yugoslavia, the Beta news agency reported.

“We’ll come here every year to pay tribute and remind of what happened, hoping something like that won’t happen to anyone anywhere ever again,” Djordjevic said.

Cen Bo thanked those present for coming every year to honour the killed journalists, adding China had condemned the “bombing of Serbia and the barbaric bombing of the Chinese embassy on May 7, 1999.”

At the time, it was said that NATO bombed the embassy by mistake.

In the meantime, the Association of Serbia’s Journalists (UNS) suggested that an award was established carrying names of the killed Chinese journalists.