Heads of state avoid ceremony to open cemetery for Polish officers in Katyn

Today Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek will open a Polish War Cemetery in Katyn to commemorate the death of Polish officers murdered by the Soviet secret police (NKVD). President Aleksander Kwasniewski and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will not join the ceremony. An official delegation consisting of the Sejm and Senate speakers and the representatives of the Katyn Families group will take part in the ceremony. (Zycie, page 4) A.Z.