His Holiness the Dalai Lama Offers his Condolences to the People of Poland

Monday, April 12, 2010

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A picture of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife is seen next to a candle during a special service for the victims of the plane crash in Smolensk in a Catholic Cathedral in Moscow, Sunday, April 11, 2010. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died Saturday along with dozens of others when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog near Smolensk in western Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Dharamsala - His Holiness the Dalai Lama offered his condolences to the people of Poland for the loss of President Kaczynski, and all the others who died in a tragic air crash in a letter to the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent on 10th April, 2010.

His Holiness recalled having been privileged to meet the President when he visited Poland and expressed his admiration for the late President's dedication to the cause of freedom, democracy and human rights.