{"id":36724,"date":"2025-03-31T14:28:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36724"},"modified":"2025-03-31T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:28:53","slug":"presidents-delegate-marijan-marekovic-attends-ceremony-marking-34th-anniversary-of-operation-plitvice-honouring-croatian-defender-josip-jovic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/presidents-delegate-marijan-marekovic-attends-ceremony-marking-34th-anniversary-of-operation-plitvice-honouring-croatian-defender-josip-jovic\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s Delegate Marijan Marekovi\u0107 Attends Ceremony Marking 34th Anniversary of Operation Plitvice, Honouring Croatian Defender Josip Jovi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marijan Marekovi\u0107, Adviser to the President of the Republic for Homeland War Veterans and delegate of President and Commander in Chief of the Croatian Armed Forces Zoran Milanovi\u0107, today attended a ceremony marking the 34<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Operation Plitvice and honouring police officer Josip Jovi\u0107, the first Croatian defender killed in the Homeland War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adviser to the President of the Republic for Homeland War Veterans Marijan Marekovi\u0107 laid a wreath on behalf of the President of the Republic and lit a candle at the Josip Jovi\u0107 Memorial at Plitvice Lakes. As the first casualty of the Homeland War, Josip Jovi\u0107 was killed on Easter, on the 31<sup>st<\/sup> of March 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alongside the President\u2019s delegate, Slavko Butorac, wartime commander of the Lu\u010dko Anti-Terrorist Unit, and Brigadier General \u017deljko Ljubas, Commander of the Command-Operational Centre of the Croatian Armed Forces, also attended the wreath-laying ceremony. At the monument to the first victim of the Homeland War, wreaths were laid and candles lit by Josip Jovi\u0107\u2019s family, participants of Operation \u201cPlitvice,\u201d and members of associations stemming from the Homeland War, including the Association of Wartime Members of the Lu\u010dko Anti-Terrorist Unit \u201990, the Tigar 90\/91 Rakitje Association, the PJP Kumrovec 90 Association, the Homeland War Special Police Association, the First Croatian Police Officers Association, and the SJP Grom Karlovac Association. Representatives of the Croatian Parliament, the Government of the Republic of Croatia, and county officials were also present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the commemorative programme, new members of the Lu\u010dko Anti-Terrorist Unit received Special Police emblems.<\/p>\n\n\n<!--GALLERY BLOCK-->\n<div class=\"c-lightbox-gallery js-lightbox\">\n                <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0027-2-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0027-2-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0046-1-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0046-1-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0069-1-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0069-1-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0077-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0077-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n        <\/div>\n<!--end GALLERY BLOCK-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia \/ Filip Glas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adviser to the President of the Republic for Homeland War Veterans Marijan Marekovi\u0107 laid a wreath on behalf of the President of the Republic and lit a candle at the Josip Jovi\u0107 Memorial at Plitvice Lakes. 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