The president turns to Polonia. Nawrocki: You will be important to this presidency

It will be a presidency for which Poles are really important outside the country – assured President Karol Nawrocki during a Monday meeting with the Polish community in Lithuania. He added that the postulates of Poles in Lithuania and Lithuanians in Poland can be “solved in a partner debate of two allies.”

On Monday, President Nawrocki is visiting Lithuania. He talked to President Gitanas Naeda, with Inginne's prime minister Ruginne and the chairman of the Lithuanian Sejm Saulius Skvernelis. Vilnius is another – after Washington and the Vatican – the capital that the President of the Republic of Poland has been visiting since the office in early August.

Nawrocki also met on Monday with representatives of the Polish minority in Lithuania during the ceremony at the Polish Embassy in Vilnius. – It will be a presidency for which Poles are really important outside the country and I would like you to look at our activities like this – the president asked Poles living in the Vilnius region.

He reminded that up to 60 million Poles live in the world. The president thanked those gathered for cultivating Polish culture and traditions outside the state, while actively participating in the economic or political life of Lithuania. He also emphasized that Vilnius Poles are the first Poles from abroad, with whom they meet from taking office.

– During conversations with President Naeda, with the President of the Parliament, we also talked to the Prime Minister, above all about what connects us. On cultural heritage, about our common, sometimes complicated, memory and history. We talked about infrastructure projects that we are waiting for and which are as important as Rail Baltica and Via Baltica – reported Nawrocki.

He added that the talks also concerned “building our immunity in NATO and the EU, but also the postulates of Poles in Lithuania and Lithuanian life in Poland.” At the same time, the president emphasized that he was convinced that these issues “we will be ready to solve in the future in a partner, friendly debate of two allies.”

During a visit to Vilnius, the president also visited places important for Polish history – a Vilnius Ostra Gate, as well as two historical Vilnius cemetery – a cemetery in Antokol, where he laid flowers at the Memorials of those killed for the independence of Lithuania, which commemorates, among others Victims of clashes with Soviet soldiers in January 1991, as well as at the quarters of Polish soldiers from 1920 located in this cemetery.

Nawrocki also visited the Rossa cemetery, where the graves of many figures important for Polish history are located; He laid wreaths at the Mausoleum of Mother and Heart of his son, where the mother of Józef Piłsudski Maria Piłsudska and his heart are buried, as well as in the chapel of January insurgents, where, among others The heroes of the Uprising Konstanty Kalinowski and Zygmunt Sierakowski.

Visits to Rossa and meetings with the Polish minority in Lithuania – the largest national minority of this country – is a traditional and permanent element of visits to Polish leaders in Lithuania.

From Lithuania, the president goes to Finland with another visit.

from Vilnius Mikołaj Małecki. (PAP)

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