They were joined at the Cenotaph by religious leaders and war veterans for a wreath-laying ceremony.
The Royal British Legion opposed the move saying they did not want to see the Cenotaph politicised.
The Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, will lay a wreath at Belfast City Hall cenotaph.
The National Service of Remembrance, led by the Queen, will take place at the Cenotaph on Sunday.
"The decision has been made and we shouldn't draw the cenotaph into being a political football, " he said.
Their names have been added to the cenotaph along with 11 bronze doves.
Upon reaching the Cenotaph, he stepped forward alone and laid the laurel wreath.
The proposals would see 13 monuments - excluding the cenotaph - temporarily relocated to other parts of the city.
As in previous years, I was providing a live commentary from Belfast Cenotaph for the Downtown Radio Poppy Day programme.
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Veterans' representatives laid wreaths at the Cenotaph before nearly 10, 000 ex-servicemen and women marched past to commemorate their fallen comrades.
It is understood the advice is that there would be equality issues if the flag flew every day over the cenotaph.
It was a sombre occasion for the hundreds of people gathered at the Cenotaph outside Belfast City Hall for Remembrance Sunday.
Although he admitted defacing that statue, he denied any involvement in graffiti sprayed on the Whitehall Cenotaph during the May Day demonstrations.
New York fire chief Joe Callan, who survived the collapse of the World Trade Center, marched alongside British firefighters to the Cenotaph.
The radio bulletins were reporting that a bomb had gone off at the cenotaph and several people had been killed, many more injured.
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The DUP has abandoned its campaign to have the Union flag flown every day at the Cenotaph in the grounds of Belfast City Hall.
At Belfast City Hall, the governor of the Apprentice Boys, Alistair Simpson, laid a wreath at the cenotaph in memory of the war dead.
Irish republicans in Northern Ireland have always refused to attend Cenotaph wreath laying ceremonies, saying they were too closely associated with Britain's military establishment.
The cenotaph in Enniskillen is a memorial to the Inniskilling regiments and the servicemen and women from County Fermanagh who died in two world wars.
Private John Murray, from Ferndale, Rhondda, died at Mametz Wood on 7 July 1916 but he was not included when the town's cenotaph was built.
Three years ago, Mr de Arth, from London, visited the cenotaph in Ferndale for the first time and saw his uncle's name was not on it.
He laid a laurel wreath at the cenotaph in memory "of those lost a the Battle of the Somme, on behalf of the government of Ireland".
Last month, the cenotaph proposal, which had been put forward by DUP councillor Lee Reynolds, was brought before a meeting of the council's policy and resources committee.
He was last seen on CCTV at 00:23 on Friday, 6 April walking past the cenotaph in Senghenydd and heading down Commercial Street in the direction of Abertridwr.
But he dismissed Conservative accusations that police chiefs should have acted sooner - particularly to prevent graffiti being daubed on the Cenotaph and a statue of Winston Churchill.
The proposals will see 13 monuments in George Square - excluding the cenotaph - temporarily relocated to other parts of the city while redevelopment work is under way.
She said that any decision to fly the union flag over the cenotaph outside Belfast City Hall would have to be considered as a separate issue by the council.
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One proposal suggested by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) last month was to fly the union flag over the cenotaph which stands in the grounds of Belfast City Hall.
The government was represented by Northern Ireland Office minister Ian Pearson, who was one of the many making the procession to lay a wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph.
The court was told a photograph was also taken of Gilmour holding on to a Union Jack which was hanging from the Cenotaph, an incident for which he later apologised.
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