The National Flag Day was celebrated in the Tricolor Square

National Flag Day was celebrated in all locations in the country where there are military units. In the capital, the ceremony took place in the Tricolor Square in front of the Military Circle.

Along with the soldiers from the 30th Guard Brigade "Mihai Viteazul", members of the executive, foreign military attaches and other officials, Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca stressed that the tricolor represents the honor of the past and the guarantee of the future.

Nicolae Ciuca: The National Flag represents respect for history, for the present and especially for the future. I want to thank all those who participated and I thank the children that they were with us this morning to celebrate Flag Day.

Reporter: In Tricolor Square, Bucharest residents, young people, elderly people, but also guests from the counties neighboring the capital, who also wore traditional costumes and who confessed their thoughts to us, gathered.

-: National Flag Day means almost everything to us, it is our life, our national culture with which we were born and with which we will die. We carry the National Flag and the Romanian culture in our souls every day. We are from Arges, Pitesti.

-: As a former soldier who served my country for 39 years under the flag, it is a great honor for me and I wanted to participate.

-: It is a holy day for Romanians.

Reporter: The tricolor flag was adopted as a symbol of the nation during the Revolution of 1848 and it is celebrated every year on June 26 since 1998.

President Klaus Iohannis also sent a message stating that the National Flag is a strong link between the present, past and future that symbolically reminds of the fundamental values ​​of the nation.

In his turn, the Minister of Defense, Vasile Dincu, addressed a message of appreciation to the military that the Tricolor Battle Flag has accompanied in the great moments of history, including in the missions in the theaters of operations of the last decades.

Translated by: Radu Matei