The Mayors of Sarajevo and Istocno Sarajevo (East Sarajevo) took over on Thursday the ‘Flame of Peace’ in Rome ahead of the Sarajevo & East Sarajevo 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, which is about to take place from February 9 to 11.

The European Olympic Committee organised the ‘Flame of Peace Ceremony’ at which the mayor of Sarajevo, Abdulah Skaka and the mayor of Eastern Sarajevo, Nenad Vukovic, have taken over the Flame. The ceremony was also attended by the director of EYOF, Senahid Godinjak.

The Flame is now on its way to Sarajevo where it will be lit at an opening ceremony on February 10 at the Olympic stadium ‘Asim Ferhatovic Hase’.

“Receiving the olive branch and this Flame is a great honour which I am sharing with all the peoples and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina and our Sarajevo as a universal message of peace and progress,” said Sarajevo’s Mayor, Abdulah Skaka.