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Paska: Our Condolences to Bereaved and Entire Polish Nation
Saturday 10 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 10 (TASR) – Slovak Parliamentary Chairman Pavol Paska took with deep sorrow the news about the tragic crash of the airplane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski along with many of the country's top officials near the Russian town of Smolensk earlier that day, TASR was told by Paska's spokesman Jozef Plsko.
Paska sent a letter of condolence to Polish Sejm Marshal Bronislaw Komorowski, who became the country's acting President after Lech Kaczynski perished in the plane crash.
The plane with 132 people on board, including President Kaczynski and First Lady Maria, as well as Poland's army chief General Franciszek Gagor, Central Bank governor Slawomir Skrzypek, MPs and leading historians, crashed while landing in a heavy fog on Smolensk airport on Saturday morning, killing everyone on board. The delegation was flying from Warsaw to Smolensk to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, in which thousands of Poles were slaughtered by Soviet forces.
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