Party of European Socialists sends condolences after Smolensk Air Crash
Mon 12 Apr 2010
10 April 2010 / Press Statement – Party of European Socialists
The President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) Poul Nyrup Rasmussen described the air crash of 10 April near Smolensk and the loss of 132 lives, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, as ‘a terrible blow for the Polish People’.
Mr. Rasmussen pledged the support of the PES to the victims’ families and to Polish PES members SLD, as they come to terms with the loss of Presidential candidate Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, who was a member of the PES Presidency, and Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka MP. They were all members of PES Member party SLD.
The victims had been due in the Russian town of Katyn, to remember the thousands murdered by the Soviet army in 1940. “That this awful accident should occur on route to such an important commemorative ceremony, with relatives of the victims of oppression also on board, deepens the sense of tragedy”, Mr. Rasmussen added.
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