President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca laid flowers on the freedom Monument in Vittoriosa this morning accompanied by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Opposition leader Simon Busuttil.
President Coleiro Preca was accorded a National Salute and inspected an AFM Guard of Honour.
The ceremony recalls the closure of the British military base in Malta on March 31, 1979.
The traditional regatta is being held in the afternoon.