President Bronislaw Komorowski has told Polish Radio on Independence Day that the main priority of his term as head of state is to “restore community and a sense of unity” to the nation.

During a rare visit to the Polish Radio building this morning, President Komorowski said: “My goal is to bring people together,” and referred to a “war of rhetoric” by some parts of the political class as having negative effects on building unity within Poland.

“We have to eliminate the language of aggression” in public debate, he said, referring to the opposition led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski and warned that such behaviour “leads to electoral disaster”.

On the move yesterday of the ‘Smolensk cross’ to St Anne’s church in Warsaw from the Presidential Palace chapel where it had been since early September, Komorowski said that the cross “is now where it should be” and called for an end to debate about the issue.

President Komorowski noted that information coming out of Russia about the April 10 Smolensk disaster which killed his predecessor Lech Kaczynski was at times insufficient, but he claimed that recently there has been a “clear acceleration” in both the quantity and quality of evidence emerging from Moscow.

He also assured that the investigation would be one of the topics raised during his meeting with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Warsaw on 6 December. (pg)