President Kucan Addresses Meeting of Allied Forces War Veterans

Ljubljana, 28 June - ALLIED/FORECES/VETERANS/MEETING/ADDRESS
The major ceremony in the framework of international meeting of WW II veterans in Bela Krajina was staged at the Prilozje airport near Metlika (south) Sunday morning, marking the 55th anniversary of the arrival of the Allied forces in Slovenia. The ceremony was addressed by President of the State Milan Kucan, who stressed 'the Partisan army and the entire National Liberation Struggle stand today as incontrovertible proof of the antifascist nature of the Slovene people, a nature which is one of the cornerstones of our young state of Slovenia'.

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