The body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the other victims of Saturday's plane crash in Russia, have arrived back in the Polish capital Warsaw.

Ceremonies and services to commemorate the president and the other 95 victims have been taking place across the country and in Polish immigrant communities across the globe. People continued to lay flowers near the presidential palace until the early morning and thousands of paid their last respects. Two minutes of silence was observed at noon local time. Flags at European institutions in all other European Union member states will fly at half-mast on Monday.

The plane carrying the president and dozens of senior goverment officials crashed near the airport of the Russian city of Smolensk after clipping treetops as it approached the runway in a dense fog. The passengers were all travelling to a memorial service in the Russian forest of Katyn, where some 22,000 officers and members of Poland's elite were killed by Soviet troops in 1940.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have since visited the site of the disaster. Acting President Bronislaw Komorowski wants to meet with the leaders of all political parties to discuss early presidential elections, which were initially scheduled to be held on 21 October.