Late Polish president to be laid to rest today
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
WARSAW, Apr 12 (Xinhua): Polish President Lech Kaczynski's coffin will be laid out in state in the Presidential Palace Tuesday, Presidential Minister Jacek Sasin said Monday.
Sasin added that the presidential couple will be buried together. The coffin will be closed.
"We want to make it possible for all Poles willing to pay tribute to the late president to come here and bow their heads," Sasin stressed, quoted by the Polish news agency PAP.
President Kaczynski's body was brought to Poland from Russia Sunday.
Meanwhile, government and Presidential Chancellery officials met Monday morning to discuss preparations for the funeral of the people killed in the crash of the presidential plane near Smolensk Saturday.
Sasin added that the presidential couple will be buried together. The coffin will be closed.
"We want to make it possible for all Poles willing to pay tribute to the late president to come here and bow their heads," Sasin stressed, quoted by the Polish news agency PAP.
President Kaczynski's body was brought to Poland from Russia Sunday.
Meanwhile, government and Presidential Chancellery officials met Monday morning to discuss preparations for the funeral of the people killed in the crash of the presidential plane near Smolensk Saturday.