Smolensk (Russia) April 11: Russia and Poland today said they would agree the text for a new memorial for the plane crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski after a bitter row over the replacement of a previous plaque.
“I want to announce today that we have agreed on the creation of a special international group who will design this memorial,” said Medvedev after talks with his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski.
Komorowski, quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency, said that the text would be in Polish and Russian and would be agreed upon by both sides.
Russia has angered Poland by replacing a Polish-language memorial at the site of the crash which referred to a “genocide” of Polish officers by Soviet secret police at the nearby Katyn forest at the start of World War II.
–Agencies