The Eternal flame (Serbian: Вечна ватра or Večna vatra) is a memorial to the military and civilian victims of the NATO bombing of Serbia and Montenegro. The memorial was dedicated on June 12, 2000, the first anniversary of the end of the bombing. The memorial is located in Ušće, Belgrade, Serbia. It was opened by then-President of Serbia Milan Milutinović while the monument itself was largely the work of Mirjana Marković, the widow of former Serbian president Slobodan Milošević.