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Poland president to commemorate air crash, Katyn tragedy victims
WARSAW, April 11 (Itar-Tass) -- Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski will visit Smolensk and Katyn on Monday to commemorate the victims in the crash of the Polish presidential airliner on April 10, 2010, and the Polish officers, who were executed in the Katyn forest 71 years ago. The Polish president will meet with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Monday.
Komorowski stated on the eve of his Russian visit that the
negotiations will "definitely focus on the air crash and its investigation reports." Commenting on a report made by the Interstate Aviation Committee, the Polish president noted that he "criticizes the way the report was presented and its one-sided content." "The Miller commission (the Polish governmental body which is investigating the air tragedy) will make a reciprocal report that should be published after the commemoration events," he said, adding that he intends to discuss a probable transfer of the investigation files, which Poland had not received yet.
The presidents will also discuss the construction of a monument at the crash site of the Polish presidential airliner. "This initiative will be spelled out in detail at the summit," Komorowski pointed out. An international contest is planned to hold for the design of a monument to the air crash victims, he remarked.
On Monday afternoon, Komorowski and Medvedev will visit Katyn. "A
meeting between the presidents of Russia and Poland on April 11 will be the first presidential bilateral meeting at the tombs of Polish officers executed by the Soviet NKVD secret police." The prime ministers of the countries Vladimir Putin and Donald Tusk visited the Katyn war memorial on April 7, 2010. Members of the Katyn families will commemorate the Katyn victims either.
"Right before this visit Russia passed a major part of the Katyn
investigation files to us and declassified other case files," Komorowski said in an interview published in the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper on Sunday.
"This is very important for us, because this fact points to some progress in the Katyn case investigation and the fact that Dmitry Medvedev's commitments given at the late Polish president Lech Kaczynski's funeral in Wawel are being fulfilled," he said, noting that Poland "hopes for all the documents to be declassified.'
Last November the State Duma has made a statement on the Katyn tragedy and its victims. The Russian deputies recognized this page in the history as "a war crime of the Stalin rule." "The published declassified files, which had been kept in the classified archives for many years, not only disclosed the scale of this awful tragedy, but also testified that the Katyn war crime was committed on the direct orders from Stalin and other Soviet top officials," the statement runs.
In January 2011 the Interstate Aviation Committee has made public the final report, which the international experts had made on the air crash investigation. The report noted that the crew of the Polish presidential airliner is to blame for the air crash, because the latter decided to land the airliner in the foil weather under the psychological pressure.
Komorowski stated on the eve of his Russian visit that the
negotiations will "definitely focus on the air crash and its investigation reports." Commenting on a report made by the Interstate Aviation Committee, the Polish president noted that he "criticizes the way the report was presented and its one-sided content." "The Miller commission (the Polish governmental body which is investigating the air tragedy) will make a reciprocal report that should be published after the commemoration events," he said, adding that he intends to discuss a probable transfer of the investigation files, which Poland had not received yet.
The presidents will also discuss the construction of a monument at the crash site of the Polish presidential airliner. "This initiative will be spelled out in detail at the summit," Komorowski pointed out. An international contest is planned to hold for the design of a monument to the air crash victims, he remarked.
On Monday afternoon, Komorowski and Medvedev will visit Katyn. "A
meeting between the presidents of Russia and Poland on April 11 will be the first presidential bilateral meeting at the tombs of Polish officers executed by the Soviet NKVD secret police." The prime ministers of the countries Vladimir Putin and Donald Tusk visited the Katyn war memorial on April 7, 2010. Members of the Katyn families will commemorate the Katyn victims either.
"Right before this visit Russia passed a major part of the Katyn
investigation files to us and declassified other case files," Komorowski said in an interview published in the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper on Sunday.
"This is very important for us, because this fact points to some progress in the Katyn case investigation and the fact that Dmitry Medvedev's commitments given at the late Polish president Lech Kaczynski's funeral in Wawel are being fulfilled," he said, noting that Poland "hopes for all the documents to be declassified.'
Last November the State Duma has made a statement on the Katyn tragedy and its victims. The Russian deputies recognized this page in the history as "a war crime of the Stalin rule." "The published declassified files, which had been kept in the classified archives for many years, not only disclosed the scale of this awful tragedy, but also testified that the Katyn war crime was committed on the direct orders from Stalin and other Soviet top officials," the statement runs.
In January 2011 the Interstate Aviation Committee has made public the final report, which the international experts had made on the air crash investigation. The report noted that the crew of the Polish presidential airliner is to blame for the air crash, because the latter decided to land the airliner in the foil weather under the psychological pressure.
