The French President had invited seventeen heads of state and government to attend the ceremonial event that took place at the Sword beach, one of the landing beaches in Ouisterham, France.

The 6 June 1944 marks a key event in the history of the Second World War. The landings themselves and fights for Normandy that followed resulted in massive casualties.

The purpose of the ceremony was to honour the allies who had perished in France and the surviving war veterans, a few of whom also attended an official lunch with heads of state and government this year.
The Slovak President was accompanied by two war veterans, Ondrej Bubniak and Štefan Miklánek, at the ceremony.