Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has sent...
"I, like all Russian citizens, have accepted with deep and sincere shock the news of the tragic death of the Republic of Poland"s President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and the members of the large Polish delegation near the city of Smolensk, who were on their way for commemorations in Katyn," the Kremlin"s press service quoted Medvedev as saying in his message to the acting Polish president.
In line with the president"s death, Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski has become the acting president in Poland. Komorowski has called an emergency government meeting in Warsaw and is on his way to the Polish capital from Gdansk. It is expected that the acting president will call for presidential elections to be held within 14 days in line with the death of Kaczynski.
Medvedev also added in his statement to Komorowski that a complete investigation into the cause of the plane crash would be made in full cooperation with Polish authorities.