Poland expressed concern to Russia on August 29 over what it called “difficulties” in accessing the site of the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others.
Poland’s Foreign Ministry said Deputy Foreign Minister Bartosz Cichocki handed a diplomatic note to Russia’s Ambassador Sergei Andreyev regarding access to the crash site in Smolensk, eastern Russia. He said the note stressed the need for dialogue that would also address the issue of a monument to the crash victims that Poland and Russia have jointly agreed to put up at the site, but which still has not been done.
