Condolences to Poland from Rep. of Macedonia

Day 872, 02:47 • Published in Poland Croatia • by Martin Davitkovski


Dear Polish citizens, sincere condolences from players from Republic of Macedonia about tragic news about your rl president.

On the 10th of April 2010 a Tupolev Tu-154 plane carrying President Kaczyński and his wife Maria Kaczyńska was travelling from Warsaw and crashed whilst approaching Smolensk (air base) at 10:56 Eastern European Time (06:56 GMT). The crash occurred in foggy conditions about 1.5 km from the airport. The governor of Smolensk Oblast confirmed for Russia 24 news channel that there were no survivors of the crash. There were more than 80 people on-board the plane. On board were also the Governor of Poland Central Bank, Sławomir Skrzypek, the Polish army chief of staff and the Deputy Foreign Minisiter Andrzej Kremer. The party were traveling to Russia to commemorate the Katyn massacre.

According to the flight manifest on board were: Lech Kaczyński (the President of Poland), Maria Kaczyńska (the first lady), Ryszard Kaczorowski (the last President of the Polish government-in-exile), Jerzy Szmajdziński (Deputy Speaker of the Sejm), Władysław Stasiak (Chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland), Aleksander Szczygło (head of the National Security Bureau), Paweł Wypych (Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland), Mariusz Handzlik (Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland), Andrzej Kremer (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs), General Franciszek Gągor (Chief of the Polish Army General Staff), Andrzej Przewoźnik (Secretary-General of Rada Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa), Grzegorz Dolniak, Przemysław Gosiewski, Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, Aleksandra Natalli-Świat, Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, Zbigniew Wassermann (Members of the Sejm), Janusz Kochanowski (Polish Ombudsman), Sławomir Skrzypek (President of the National Bank of Poland), Janusz Kurtyka (Historian and president of the Institute of National Remembrance), Tadeusz Płoski (Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army), Piotr Nurowski (President of the Polish Olympic Committee), Ryszard Rumianek (Rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw).

R.I.P :'(