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Gasparovic: We Are Mourning with Brotherly Polish Nation
Saturday 10 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 10 (TASR)- Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic with deep sorrow received the shocking news on the plane crash in which died his good personal friend and friend of Slovakia, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, along with his wife Maria and several Polish officials, TASR was told by Gasparovic's spokesman Marek Trubac on Saturday.
"In these moments that are shattering for the entire Polish nation and the mourning families, we express the deepest condolence to the bereaved and the brotherly Polish nation," reads a telegram of condolence that was sent by Gasparovic to Mashal of the Polish Sejm Bronislaw Komorowski, who became Poland's Acting President after Kaczynski's tragic death.
The accident at the Smolensk airport in western Russia on Saturday morning claimed the lives of all 132 people on the board.
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