During his visit to Latvia, the President visited the Polish Secondary School in Riga on Thursday, where he met with representatives of the Latvian Polish community. During his visit, Karol Nawrocki presented orders and state decorations to distinguished Polish activists for their services in maintaining and promoting Polish culture in Latvia.
— Poles are loyal citizens of Latvia because we share the same values with Latvia, emphasized Karol Nawrocki on Thursday at a meeting with Poles in Latvia. – These are many years of building joint efforts, a common sense of independence, freedom and sovereignty – he added.
The Polish leader thanked the president and prime minister of Latvia. — We are united by a common experience of the past, but we are also united by common goals with Latvia. We are together in the EU and NATO and we are deeply convinced that the Euro-Atlantic direction of action for Poland and Latvia is the one that seems to be the most important, necessary and necessary to preserve our sovereignty, independence and security, he noted.
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Where did Karol Nawrocki's meeting with Poles take place?
What values unite Poles and Latvians?
How many people are there in the Polish minority in Latvia?
What did Karol Nawrocki give to Polish activists?
Karol Nawrocki in Latvia. He turned to the Polish community
The president added that “strategic and political cooperation, cooperation of entire national communities, is best reflected in places” like the school he visited. – You are, in fact, Poland's ambassadors in Latvia and Latvia's ambassadors also in Poland – he said to Polish activists.
Currently, the Polish minority in Latvia numbers slightly less than 50,000. people who live mainly around Daugavpils, Krasław and Rzeżyca in the south-eastern part of the country – former Livonia – as well as in Riga.
Poles appeared in what is now Latvia in the 16th century as settlers in Livonia, which was then part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Currently, Latvian Poles are associated in various Polish associations; there are Polish schools in Riga, Daugavpils and Rezhyca.
