Kaczynski family's plea
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April 17, 2010, Saturday
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THE family of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski insists that his state funeral be held tomorrow in Krakow as planned, despite fears that a volcanic ash cloud emanating from Iceland may keep some world leaders from attending.
It was the family's first statement since the president and his wife, Maria Kaczynska, died in a plane crash last Saturday in western Russia along with 94 others among Poland's political and military elite.
"It is the will of the family that, under no circumstance, the date of the funeral be changed," Presidential Palace spokesman Jacek Sasin said on the family's behalf.
Airports in Poland were shut down yesterday, however, as a cloud of volcanic ash drifting from Iceland forced huge patches of European airspace to be closed. It was unclear if Poland's airports would reopen in time to receive world leaders arriving early tomorrow to attend the state funeral.
Among world leaders planning to attend tomorrow are US President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
It was the family's first statement since the president and his wife, Maria Kaczynska, died in a plane crash last Saturday in western Russia along with 94 others among Poland's political and military elite.
"It is the will of the family that, under no circumstance, the date of the funeral be changed," Presidential Palace spokesman Jacek Sasin said on the family's behalf.
Airports in Poland were shut down yesterday, however, as a cloud of volcanic ash drifting from Iceland forced huge patches of European airspace to be closed. It was unclear if Poland's airports would reopen in time to receive world leaders arriving early tomorrow to attend the state funeral.
Among world leaders planning to attend tomorrow are US President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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