For the 12th consecutive year, the city of Zadar celebrated the signing of its 666-year-old Peace Treaty.
The Celebration took place on Friday, February 16th, with the Monastery of St. Francis as its center, organized by the “Islands of Zadar” Primary School Museum “Heritage and Peace”, head by Prof. Anamaija Botica with the suport of the Municipality of Zadar, a member of ENPP.
Before the Commemorative Session, a historic procession that also included students from that school and traditional groups from this Croatian region, traveled through some central streets of the city to the Monastery where the Peace Treaty was signed on February 18, 1358.
The President of ENPP, Eduardo Basso, sent a congratulatory message for this Commemoration which was read during the Commemorative Session by Anita Grzan-Martinovic, head of the Department of International Relations of the Municipality of Zadar and member of the ENPP Board. In this message, the President of ENPP congratulates the continued struggle for Peace led by the city of Zadar and calls on the main European institutions to act in accordance with the interests of all European peoples and with the very principles that guided its constitution, guiding its action to put an end to this war and create the conditions to guarantee lasting peace for all the Ukrainian people and to prevent the spread of this war and its consequences for the remaining European peoples, adding that Peace in Europe and in the World will never  will be achieved by force of arms but by dialogue and negotiation.