The Government of Montenegro has given consent to the Municipality of Ulcinj to erect a memorial to the victims of the 1979 earthquake near the Old Town and the scaffolding.
The law stipulates that a memorial for a significant event cannot be erected before the expiration of 50 years from the day it took place, except exceptionally, with the prior consent of the Government, which is why the Municipality of Ulcinj turned to the Ministry of Culture.
The Ministry proposed to the Government to give its consent "bearing in mind that by erecting this memorial, the victims are honored in a dignified way, and it reminds of the solidarity of all those who helped the vulnerable, and symbolically warns of the destructiveness of earthquakes and the importance of aseismic design."
The Ministry assessed that there is no danger of devaluing the importance of this event in the coming period.
"The proposed location of the monument will be near the Old Town and the scaffolding, considering that the Old Town of Ulcinj was the most affected area, and the visual solution and shape will be determined by a competition, after obtaining approval for the construction program," the proposal for approval states.
The names of the citizens of Ulcinj who lost their lives in the earthquake will be engraved on the monument.
The earthquake, which occurred on April 15, 1979 at seven hours and 19 minutes, had a magnitude of seven on the Richter scale, and 101 people were killed, while more than a thousand were injured.
The earthquake was mainly felt along the Montenegrin and Albanian coasts, severely damaging the old towns of Kotor, Budva, Herceg Novi, Bar and Ulcinj.
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