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Slovakia to Declare State Mourning on Day of Kaczynski's Funeral
Sunday 11 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 11 (TASR) - Slovakia's Government will, after consultation with President Ivan Gasparovic, soon decide on declaring a state of mourning on the day of Polish President Lech Kaczynski's funeral, director of Government Office Press Department Brano Ondrus told TASR on Sunday.
Kaczynski perished along with his wife Maria Kaczynska and many Polish officials, historians and religious representatives on board a Tupolev-154 plane at an airport in Smolensk, Russia on Saturday morning.
The tragedy claimed the lives of all 96 people on board. The 88-member Polish official delegation was set to attend a commemorative event in the Katyn forest (Russia) to mark the 70th anniversary of the mass slaughter of Polish military officials and intelligentsia by the Soviet NKVD public and secret police (a precursor of the KGB).
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