TRABZON - A delegation from the Spanish Embassy in Ankara arrived on Monday in northern province of Trabzon on preparations for erecting a monument in memory of Spanish peacekeeping soldiers.
The delegation members visited the crash-site to carry out preliminary work on construction of a monument in memory of Spanish peacekeeping soldiers.
Sources said that building of the memorial would be finalized by May 26, 2004.
An Ukrainian plane crashed in the Pilav mountain near Macka town of northern province of Trabzon on May 26, 2003, killing the thirteen crew members and sixty-two Spanish peacekeeping soldiers returning from duty in Afghanistan.
(MS) 16.02.2004