Foreign Minister expresses deepest condolences with regard to tragic fire in Poland

13 Apr 2009


Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins has sent a letter of condolences to Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Radoslav Sikorski, expressing his deepest sympathies and words of support to the friends and relatives of those who died in the homeless people's refuge that burned down in Kamien-Pomorski, Poland.

According to present information, on 13 April, at least 20 people have lost their lives in the fire in the Polish town of Kamien-Pomorski.

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