EuCo President: defence minister's comments 'harmful for Poland'
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
21.10.2016 09:42
Comments by Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz about a 2010 meeting between Donald Tusk and Vladimir Putin are "harmful to Poland", said Tusk, now the head of the European Council.
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Tusk, who was then Poland's prime minister, met Russian leader Vladimir Putin hours after the Polish presidential plane crash in western Russia on 10 April 2010.
Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz has said that a newly surfaced recording of the meeting, where some details of the crash were outlined, highlights the likelihood that the official Russian report was “falsified” and the Polish equivalent was merely a copy of the Russian one.
In an interview with journalists in Brussels on Thursday, Tusk said that the situation is “sad”.
“Everyone knows that Polish and Russian cameras were present at this meeting. A lot of people accompanied us. These are no longer insinuations. These are signs of a very serious case of pathological politics. Frankly I do not want to comment on this. It's sad, because they are really harmful to Poland,” Tusk said.
The governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, which came to power last October, has launched a new commission to probe the crash, which happened as the Polish presidential plane was attempting to land at the Smolensk military airport.
All 96 people on board, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, were killed in the disaster. (rg)
Source: PAP