Viktor Orbán's Letter of Condolence

10 April 2010

Viktor Orbán sent the following letter of condolence to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and to Bronislaw Komorowski and Bogdan Borusewicz.


I was deeply shocked to hear that President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, several state leaders, the relatives of the Katyn massacre and leading Polish intellectuals have been killed this morning in a plane crash in Smolensk. The tragedy of Lech Kaczynski and his fellow passengers has opened a new chapter in the drama of Katyn, instead of closing it, which was the original aim of their journey. Due to our shared fate, our shared tragedies and hopes, we, Hungarians feel everything that happens to our Polish friends as brothers and friends would feel. Hungary and Fidesz have lost many friends this Saturday morning,  and in the President I have lost a close friend and an irreplaceable fellow fighter.

President Kaczynski would always pay special respect to the accommodation of persecuted Polish people in Hungary and to those Hungarians who opened up their homes for them. In the midst of this tragedy I am proud of the fact that the only memorial of the Katyn massacre in Europe outside Poland stands in Budapest.

I would like to offer my deepest sympathy to you and ask you to pass on my condolences to the relatives of the victims and to all our Polish friends. In these difficult moments we are standing by you and we will do everything in the future to strengthen the friendship between Hungary and our strategic partner, Poland.

On behalf of Fidesz and also my family, I personally would like to offer my deepest sympathy to you, and let me assure you that you will always be able to rely on us, Hungarians.


Yours sincerely,

Viktor Orbán

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  • Viktor Orbán, 52
  • Lawyer, graduated at Eötvös Loránd University and studied at Pembroke College, Oxford
  • Married to Anikó Lévai
  • They have five children: Ráhel, Gáspár, Sára, Róza, Flóra
  • Chairman of FIDESZ, vice-chairman of the European People's Party

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