ZAGREB, Aug 17 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic has sent atelegram of condolence to his French counterpart Jacques Chiracfollowing a plane crash in Venezuela in which many French nationalswere killed, the Office of the
President said in a press release onWednesday.
ZAGREB, Aug 17 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic has sent
a telegram of condolence to his French counterpart Jacques Chirac following a
plane crash in Venezuela in which many French nationals were killed, the Office
of the President said in a press release on Wednesday. "Shocked by
the news of the tragic accident in which a large of number of your citizens
were killed, please accept the deepest sympathies from me and citizens of the
Republic of Croatia," Mesic said in his message.
A West Caribbean Airways MD-82 aircraft, en route from Panama to
Martinique, crashed in a mountainous region of west Venezuela on Tuesday after
its engines failed. All 152 passengers, most of them French, and eight crew
members were killed.