Loading ...Local public authorities on Thursday celebrated Romania's Flag Day by a military parade staged before the National Military Club in the Flag Square of Bucharest City.
In a speech to the participants, Defence Minister Teodor Melescanu said the Flag Day is a festival in itself, all the more so as this year the flag turns 160, since 160 years ago the red-yellow-and-blue tricolour flag was officially declared the national flag of Romania.
'The three-coloured flag stands for all that means motherland, nation, past, present and future. I am glad to see that the citizens are joining today the public ceremonies of raising Romania's flag,' Melescanu said, pointing to the valour of Romanian troops fighting under Romania's flag in operation theatres in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Western Balkans.
'Our troops are proudly wearing their national symbols wherever they are professionally carrying out their military duties. We are glad that Romania's national flag is proudly waving at the headquarters of NATO and the European Commission,' said Melescanu.
Bucharest General Mayor Sorin Oprescu talked about the importance of the Flag Day, saying Romanians are today celebrating their flag, which is one of the symbols of their national pride.
'The Church, the Army and the administration are gathered together here under the sacred colours of the national flag. I am not a serviceman to understand how it feels to fight under the country's flag. I am not a churchman to know the magic of putting together the cross and the national colours, yet I am a Romanian which the Bucharesters voted to observe the principles, values and symbols of this people,' said Oprescu, adding that words are useless when the flag is waving in the wind.
Attending the ceremonies in Bucharest, organised by the Bucharest Prefecture, the Bucharest Mayoralty and the Bucharest Garrison Command were central administration officials, local administration officials and representatives of autonomous public bodies, together with retired service people.
June 26 was established as the Flag Day in Romania under Law 96/1998.
According to the provisions of the law, the Flag Day shall be celebrated by public authorities and other public bodies in cultural, educational, evocative or scientific events devoted to the remembrance of the national history, as well as in specific military ceremonies to be hosted by units of the Defence Ministry and the Interior Ministry.
Similar ceremonies have been held in all of Romania's county centres.
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