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21 February 2018 We have learned with great sadness of the passing of Dr. Ljubomir Sekulic, Honorary President of the Association of the National-Liberation War and Anti-Fascists of Montenegro.  The WVF had the pleasure of working very closely with Prof Sekulic, most notably during the preparation of the 23ème SCEA meeting in Cetinje, Montenegro but also […]

22 October 2017 From 9 to 12 November 2017 WVF President, Mr. Dan-Viggo Bergtun, went to the United States to help set up the Standing Committee on the Americas and participate in various events organised in the region of Washington DC for 11 November. This short visit was extremely fruitful. Mr. Bergtun was welcomed by

21 September 2017 On the International Day of Peace we reflect on the cruel price of war. Ruined schools, bombed hospitals, broken families, refugees searching for hope, countries in crisis. The Unites Nations was born from a terrible World War. Our mission is to work for peace everyday and everywhere. No group interest, national ambition

22 August 2017  This past weekend, President Bergtun visited the Røddinge High School in Denmark. This school is Denmark’s, and the world’s, oldest folk school. Together with the President of the Veterans of Denmark (http://danmarksveteraner.dk – Member Association of the WVF), Mr. Niels Hartvig Andersen, and national politicians to discuss veteran policy in Denmark.  “We must have a

14 June 2017 From 23-24 May 2017, WVF President, Mr. Dan-Viggo Bergtun, visited Warsaw, Poland, to meet with our Polish Member Associations, the Head of the WVF’s Peace and Security Division, Gen. Stanislaw Wozniak, as well as important government and security figures.   First of all, Mr. Bergtun met with Gen. Brig. Jaroslaw Kraszewski, the

4 April 2017 29 May is the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. The day was established to “honour the memory of the UN Peacekeepers who have lost their lives in the cause of peace and to pay tribute to all the men and women who have served and continue to serve in UN peacekeeping

18 November 2016 At the invitation of the President of the French Republic, Mr. François Hollande, Dan-Viggo Bergtun, President of the World Veterans Federation, took part in the French Armistice Day Ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe. This event is organized every year on November 11 to commemorate the Armistice signed between the Allies and

14 October 2016 On 28 – 30 September 2016, WVF President Dan-Viggo Bergtun attended the 60th Anniversary of the Russian Union of Veterans (OOVV) and the 9th Congress of the Commonwealth of Anti-Fascists of the World in Moscow, Russia.  The Russia Union of Veterans (formerly the Soviet Committee of War Veterans) was established in September

21 September 2016 Every year on the International Day of Peace, the United Nations calls on warring parties to lay down their arms and observe a 24-hour global ceasefire. The symbolism of a day without fighting is a crucial reminder that conflict can and must come to an end. But peace is about much more

12 August 2016 On 12 July 2016 in Zabljak, North Eastern Montenegro, the Union of Associations of Veterans and Antifascists of Montenegro hosted a regional meeting for the SCEA Working Group for South Eastern Europe. In attendance were delegates from Albania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, as well as WVF President Dan-Viggo