Macedonia observes Thursday 22 years since the death of President Boris Trajkovski, who was killed in a plane crash in Rotimlje near Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Family members, state, and other delegations will lay flowers at Trajkovski’s grave at the Skopje-based Butel cemetery and at the memorial sites in Rotimlje and Strumica.
President Trajkovski died in a plane crash on 26 February 2004, when the US-made Beechcraft King Air 200 tried to land at the airport of Mostar, in southern Bosnia, in bad weather.
Trajkovski, President’s Office advisers Dimka Ilkova-Boshkovikj, Risto Blazhevski and Anita Krishan-Lozanovska, Mile Krstevski from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, bodyguards Boris Velinov and Ace Bozhinovski, as well as pilots Marko Markovski and Branko Ivanovski were killed in the crash.
The government’s aircraft, which was carrying President Trajkovski to an International Investment Conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina, crashed on February 26, 2004, in the Matić Brdo area near the village of Huskovici, close to Mostar. The plane was scheduled to land at Mostar Airport at 8:00 am local time. The wreckage was located 24 hours after the crash.
Born on June 25, 1956, in Strumica, Boris Trajkovski was the second President of the Republic of Macedonia, holding office from December 15, 1999, to February 26, 2004.
