We grieve together with the Polish nation

Minister of National Defence R. Juknevičienė will pay tribute to the late President of Poland in Warsaw

2010.04.15

April 15, Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė, the Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and a delegation of governmental representatives will leave for Warsaw to honour the memory of the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski and his wife, leadership of the Polish Armed Forces, and other victims of the plane crash.

The governmental delegation will bid the last farewell to the President L. Kaczynski and his wife Maria, lay a funeral wreath on behalf of the Government of Lithuania and sign in a condolence book.

Ordinary of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Bishop Eugenijus Bartulis extend condolence to the nation of Poland

2010.04.13

„I am deeply shocked by the air tragedy in Smolensk that has claimed lives of the President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, leadership of the armed forces, Catholic Bishop of the Polish Armed Forces Gen. Tadeusz Ploski, Orthodox Ordinary Archbishop Brig. Gen. Miron Chodakowski, other clergy and members of delegation.

Minister of National Defence: „Poland has always been Lithuania's strategic partner in defence

2010.04.13

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Lithuanian Armed Forces and the entire National Defence System sincerely mourns together with the people of Poland upon the tragic plane crash that has claimed lives of all the leading officers of the Polish Armed Forces and a part of military chaplains alongside the President of Poland, and political, cultural Poland's figures. It was the second painful stroke that befell Poland's armed forces near Katyn, location where massacre of Polish soldiers was executed by Stalin's order on 10 April 1940.

Minister of National Defence and Chief of Defence of Lithuania send their deepest sympathy to Defence Minister and the whole nation of Poland on the death of the President of the Republic of Poland

2010.04.13

Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė and Chief of Defence of Lithuania Maj. Gen. Arvydas Pocius extends sincere condolence to the Minister of Defence of Poland Bogdan Klich and the whole nation of Poland on the tragic loss of President Lech Kaczynski and the delegation including leading military and civilian officials in Smolensk, Russia.

By order of the Minister of National Defence and Chief of Defence of Lithuania national flags were lowered in divisions of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and in the square of the Ministry of National Defence to honour the memory of the departed.

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