troops on Polish territory. Three months after the United States announced a reformulated missile-defense plan for Poland in 2010, Klich announced that an undisclosed number of American MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missiles would be deployed in the vicinity of Morąg, in northern Poland, just 35 miles from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. On May 12, 2011, Klich announced that Poland would lead a new EU Battlegroup of the Visegrád Group. In July 2011, Klich resigned after an official investigation into the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash which killed President Lech Kaczyński and all 95 others on board, concluded that mistakes by the military pilots were the primary cause of the disaster. Prime Minister Tusk clarified that he did not hold Klich responsible for the crash, saying merely that the investigation had recommended swift and wholesale changes which could only be implemented by a new minister, Klich's deputy, Tomasz Siemoniak. Member of the Senate, 2011-present Klich has been a member of the Senate of Poland since the 2011 national elections and is currently the minority leader. He also serves as deputy chairman of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Affairs and as member of the Defence Committee. In addition to his role in parliament, Klich has again been serving as a member of the Polish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2012. He serves on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy and on the Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World; in this capacity, he is also the Assembly's rapporteur on Morocco. Since 2015, Klich has been serving as a member of the European Commission's High-level Group of Personalities on Defence Research, chaired by Elżbieta Bieńkowska. Other activities Member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London Lecturer at the Centre for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University Decorations 2010 - Medal "Milito Pro Christo" 2010 - Order of Merit, Ukraine 2014 - Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, Estonia And more. References Publications External links 1960 births Living people Politicians from Kraków Ministers of National Defence of Poland Jagiellonian University alumni Lesser Poland Voivodeship Civic Platform MEPs MEPs for Poland 2004 MEPs for Poland 2004–2009 Members of the Senate of Poland 2011–2015 Members of the Senate of Poland 2015–2019 Members of the Senate of Poland 2019–2023 Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2nd Class