DUSHANBE, April 12, 2010, Asia-Plus — President Emomali Rahmon on Saturday sent his condolences to Mr. Bronisław Komorowski, the Acting President of Poland, over a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia.
In his message, on behalf of the people of Tajikistan and himself President Rahmon extended condolences to the Polish people, to the family of President Lech Kaczynski and to the families of all those killed in the plane crash.
Bronisław Komorowski is the Acting President of Poland. When Lech Kaczynski, the President of Poland, was killed in a plane crash on April 10, 2010, acting presidential powers automatically transferred to Komorowski because he was Marshal of the Seim. This is a temporary position, and Komorowski remains Marshal of the Seim Komorowski was already the Civic Platform government”s presidential candidate, and he will run for president in elections which constitutionally must be held by June 20, 2010.
President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, including many top defense officials and public figures, died when their jet crashed en route to a war memorial service in Russia. Russian investigators suspect pilot error caused the crash. They say the pilots were warned that they were flying too low just before the plane clipped tree-tops in heavy fog, as it was coming in to land at an air base on Saturday morning.
The Polish government plane was carrying dignitaries who spanned Polish public life. They had been due to attend a memorial for the Polish victims of a World War II massacre by Soviet secret police at Katyn in Smolensk.
