Religious services will be held in the morning of March 2 in Chisinau to celebrate the Remembrance Day. Flowers will be laid at the monument to ruler Stephan the Great and Holy. A Remembrance March will be staged afterward. The order made by Prime Minister Pavel Filip and the program of events on the Remembrance Day were published in the February 23 issue of the Official Gazette, IPN reports.

The participants in the Remembrance March will walk from the Great National Assembly Square to the Memorial Complex “Eternity” where a meeting will be held to commemorate those killed in the war for defending the integrity and independence of the Republic of Moldova. After the meeting, flowers will be laid at the Grieving Mother monument. A commemoration meal with solder’s porridge will be staged at the Memorial Complex “Eternity”.

The organizational committee is headed by Minister of the Interior Alexandru Jizdan.

On the Remembrance Day, the education institutions of all levels and the military units will organize patriotic education lessons and commemoration events and will observe a moment’s silence. In March, the secondary education institutions will hold the essay contest “Eternal peace”. Until June, sports competitions will be staged in memory of those killed in battle.

In March-September, the National Library will mount a book exhibition entitled “Heroes of war – heroes of books” and will organize meetings with combatants.

A Veterans’ March for Peace will be mounted on September 21 on the occasion of the International Day of Peace.

The Nistru armed conflict of 1992 started on March 2. The ceasefire agreement between Moldova and Russia was signed on July 21 the same year.