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Russia, Poland presidents to have negotiations in Smolensk
MOSCOW, April 11 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will have negotiations with his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski in Smolensk on Monday, the Russian presidential press service reported. The Polish president will pay a working visit to Russia at the invitation of his Russian counterpart.
Medvedev will have several domestic events and meetings during his
working trip to the Smolensk Region.
The Tu-154M airliner of Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed near Smolensk on April 10, 2010. The air crash, which is still being
investigated, claimed a greater part of the Polish leadership.
Medvedev and Komorowski will visit the air crash site to commemorate the air crash victims. Meanwhile, the presidents of Russia and Poland will visit the Katyn war memorial to lay the wreaths there. The leaders of the countries will attend a Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Christian remembrance services.
The Katyn case on the execution of the Polish prisoners of war, who were being kept at the NKVD camps, has been a major problem in the
bilateral relations for a long time. According to the archive records,
21,800 Polish prisoners of war were executed in the Soviet Union in 1940.
In late April 2010 under the Russian presidential instructions the
Russian State Archives made public for the first time the electronic
copies of the authentic files about executed Polish prisoners of war.
Since May 2010 Russia has been passing the declassified Katyn case files to Poland. The latest 11 volumes of the Katyn case were passed to Warsaw on April 7, 2011. Russia has already passed 148 volumes of the Katyn case to Poland.
Russia hopes that a forthcoming meeting between Medvedev and
Komorowski will herald the next stage in the development of the bilateral relations. "The recent bilateral dialogue at the presidential level became very intensive (the leaders of the countries had three meetings in the previous year alone), and these contacts contributed to shaping a positive atmosphere in Russian-Polish relations and filling them with the constructive content in practical trends of cooperation," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov said in an interview. "I am convinced that despite all the difficulties we will have a sufficient joint political willpower and the common sense to continue the policy for making our bilateral relations truly good neighborly and partnership," he noted. "We cannot miss a historical chance to settle the throwbacks of the past and to build up future-looking relations that two great peoples are worthy of," Titov pointed out.
Another complicated issue in the bilateral relations that can be
debated at a bilateral summit is the progress in the investigation of the Polish presidential air crash. Russia satisfied almost all the Polish requests for the international legal assistance in the air crash case, the main department for international legal cooperation of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said. Russia passed another 14 volumes with the investigation file copies to Poland last week. Russia has already handed over 28 volumes of the case files to Poland.
However, Poland did not answer most Russian investigation requests, spokesman for the Russian Investigation Committee Vladimir Markin said.
"From six requests, which the Russian Investigation Committee had made to Poland, the Polish law enforcement agencies answered only two of them, moreover, not fully," he noted.
On April 10, 2010, the Tu-154M airliner, which was carrying the Polish presidential delegation for the commemoration events in Katyn, crashed in the slide down for a landing at the Smolensk Severny airfield amid a thick fog. All 96 people onboard the Polish presidential airliner, including President Lech Kaczynski, died in the air crash. The international experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee came to conclusion that the crew is to blame for the air crash, as the latter decided to land the airliner in the foil weather.
Warsaw and Moscow are carrying out separate investigations into the air crash.
Medvedev will have several domestic events and meetings during his
working trip to the Smolensk Region.
The Tu-154M airliner of Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed near Smolensk on April 10, 2010. The air crash, which is still being
investigated, claimed a greater part of the Polish leadership.
Medvedev and Komorowski will visit the air crash site to commemorate the air crash victims. Meanwhile, the presidents of Russia and Poland will visit the Katyn war memorial to lay the wreaths there. The leaders of the countries will attend a Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Christian remembrance services.
The Katyn case on the execution of the Polish prisoners of war, who were being kept at the NKVD camps, has been a major problem in the
bilateral relations for a long time. According to the archive records,
21,800 Polish prisoners of war were executed in the Soviet Union in 1940.
In late April 2010 under the Russian presidential instructions the
Russian State Archives made public for the first time the electronic
copies of the authentic files about executed Polish prisoners of war.
Since May 2010 Russia has been passing the declassified Katyn case files to Poland. The latest 11 volumes of the Katyn case were passed to Warsaw on April 7, 2011. Russia has already passed 148 volumes of the Katyn case to Poland.
Russia hopes that a forthcoming meeting between Medvedev and
Komorowski will herald the next stage in the development of the bilateral relations. "The recent bilateral dialogue at the presidential level became very intensive (the leaders of the countries had three meetings in the previous year alone), and these contacts contributed to shaping a positive atmosphere in Russian-Polish relations and filling them with the constructive content in practical trends of cooperation," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov said in an interview. "I am convinced that despite all the difficulties we will have a sufficient joint political willpower and the common sense to continue the policy for making our bilateral relations truly good neighborly and partnership," he noted. "We cannot miss a historical chance to settle the throwbacks of the past and to build up future-looking relations that two great peoples are worthy of," Titov pointed out.
Another complicated issue in the bilateral relations that can be
debated at a bilateral summit is the progress in the investigation of the Polish presidential air crash. Russia satisfied almost all the Polish requests for the international legal assistance in the air crash case, the main department for international legal cooperation of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said. Russia passed another 14 volumes with the investigation file copies to Poland last week. Russia has already handed over 28 volumes of the case files to Poland.
However, Poland did not answer most Russian investigation requests, spokesman for the Russian Investigation Committee Vladimir Markin said.
"From six requests, which the Russian Investigation Committee had made to Poland, the Polish law enforcement agencies answered only two of them, moreover, not fully," he noted.
On April 10, 2010, the Tu-154M airliner, which was carrying the Polish presidential delegation for the commemoration events in Katyn, crashed in the slide down for a landing at the Smolensk Severny airfield amid a thick fog. All 96 people onboard the Polish presidential airliner, including President Lech Kaczynski, died in the air crash. The international experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee came to conclusion that the crew is to blame for the air crash, as the latter decided to land the airliner in the foil weather.
Warsaw and Moscow are carrying out separate investigations into the air crash.
