Meetings to commemorate Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the 95 other victims in Saturday's plane crash have been held across Poland.

In the capital Warsaw, people continued to lay flowers near the presidential palace until early this morning. Many thousands of Poles came to pay their last respects.

The plane carrying the president and dozens of senior government 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. The body of the Polish president has been identified and will be flown to Warsaw on Sunday afternoon.

Two minutes of silence were observed across Poland at noon local time on Sunday. The flags at European institutions in all other European Union member states will fly at half-mast on Monday. 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.