Polish PM's aide praises Council of Europe's appeal to Russia

Marek Suski, chief aide to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, on Tuesday praised the Council of Europe's Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee's resolution calling for the return to Poland by Russia of the wreckage of a Polish presidential plane. On April 10, 2010, President Lech Kaczyński, his wife and dozens of senior government and military officials died when their government plane crashed near a military airfield in the city of Smoleńsk, killing all 96 people on board. Russia has since refused to return the wreckage, claiming the investigation into the crash is still ongoing. Suski said on Polish public radio that "it is good that such an appeal was made, but it's a pity it appeared so many years after the disaster."