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Poland wants to make public report on presidential plane crash in January

01 December 2010 00:30 (UTC +04:00)

"We hope that in January we will be able to analyze together what Russian and Polish investigators found out about the Smolensk tragedy," Minister of Interior and Administration Jerzy Miller said in an interview with Polish TVN24 television channel.

The report by the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) was handed over by Russia to Polandâ€™s chief investigator, Edmund Klich in October.

Miller added that as the report is presented Poland will also voice its opinion and position on the conclusions made about the tragic crash.

MAK deputy head Oleg Yermolov said earlier that the 200-page report would not be made public before Poland commented.

The worn-out Tu-154 with a top-level Polish delegation, including then President Lech Kaczynski, crashed near the western Russian city of Smolensk in thick fog on April 10, killing all 96 people onboard. The delegation was on its way to a commemoration ceremony of the 1940 Katyn massacre, in which more than 20,000 Poles were executed by Soviet forces.