It is with the deepest sense of grief that we learned, in the morning hours of April 10th 2010, about one of the most terrible tragedies in the history of Poland. On the way to the commemoration ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyń Massacre the President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński was killed in a plane crash along with the First Lady Maria Kaczyńska, many senior state officials, members of the Polish delegation and the plane crew. A week of national mourning was declared by the Speaker of the Sejm Bronisław Komorowski.
The victims of the plane crash include eminent members of the Polish foreign service: Andrzej Kremer, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mariusz Handzlik, Undersecretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of Poland; Stanisław Jerzy Komorowski, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of National Defence; Mariusz Kazana, Director of Diplomatic Protocol.
We would like to offer our deepest sympathies to friends and families of the victims.
