Fiona Hyslop, Scottish National party MSP and Scottish government secretary for culture, Europe and external affairs, said: "The Battle of Jutland was the war's largest naval battle and this will be an important commemoration when we should reflect on the bravery of the Navy and its sailors.
"As we enter an important decade of commemorations in both our countries, it is my hope that what has been established here today will keep alive the history and the stories of those who did not return from war," Mr Robinson said.
Choice is an increasingly important part of commemoration, among the religious and non-religious alike.
"Important to support commemoration of great PM before EU sinks UK.
When Pope John Paul II joined the chief rabbi of Ukraine for prayers at Babi Yar last week, he performed an important act of commemoration, reminding Ukraine and the world of the atrocities that occurred at one of the most infamous killing sites of the Holocaust.
The Day of the African Child came into being following a declaration by the African Union Heads of State as an important day in commemoration of the 1976 protests by schoolchildren in Soweto, South Africa.
World War One centenary commemorations are important in the UK, but in Germany people rarely visit WW1 cemeteries.
More important than all the commemorations of this revolution or that awakening, in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen, is the reflection of the shock in the repercussions of these uprisings on the issue of Syria.
The mourning also coincided with an important Shia festival, the commemoration of the death of Fatima al-Zahra, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
It gives an important imprimatur to next year's commemorations of this extraordinary, barbaric history and its multiple legacies today.
