Oświadczenie senatorów Prawa i Sprawiedliwości skierowane do Ministra Środowiska Macieja Nowickiego w sprawie inwestycji geotermalnej w Toruniu, na kt

Oświadczenie senatorów Prawa i Sprawiedliwości skierowane do Ministra Środowiska Macieja Nowickiego w sprawie inwestycji geotermalnej w Toruniu, na kt

Oświadczenie senatorów Prawa i Sprawiedliwości skierowane do Ministra Środowiska Macieja Nowickiego w sprawie inwestycji geotermalnej w Toruniu, na którą Zarząd Narodowego Funduszu Ochrony Środowiska odebrał pieniądze Fundacji "Lux Veritatis"
(2008-11-10)
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Warszawa, 7 listopada 2008 r. Panie Ministrze, z satysfakcją donosimy Panu, że toruńska geotermia jest bliska sukcesu, że ta inwestycja powiodła się, mimo iż Narodowy Fundusz Ochrony Środowiska i Gospodarki Wodnej zerwał umowę z Fundacją "Lux Veritatis" na jej budowę. Jeśli zważyć ponadto, że minister spraw wewnętrznych i administracji nie zgodził się na ogłoszenie zbiórki publicznej na ten cel, naszym zdaniem rząd zachował się tak, jak w PRL-u: gdy Polacy odkryli jakieś złoża bogactw naturalnych, takie miejsce zabetonowywano, a badaczom zabraniano o tym mówić. Panie Ministrze, jak się Pan teraz czuje, kiedy Fundacja "Lux Veritatis" dotarła do źródeł geotermalnych w Toruniu, a Pan, jako zwierzchnik Zarządu Narodowego Funduszu Ochrony Środowiska i Gospodarki Wodnej, wypowiedział zawartą wcześniej umowę z Fundacją, dotyczącą tej inwestycji geotermalnej? Już wiadomo, że woda z toruńskiej geotermii będzie wystarczająco gorąca, by można ją było wykorzystać do ogrzewania pomieszczeń, do produkcji prądu, oraz wystarczająco czysta, aby wykorzystać ją do balneologii oraz napełnienia wodą basenów. Panie Ministrze, kto lepiej dba o bezpieczeństwo energetyczne kraju, Pańskie ministerstwo czy prywatna Fundacja "Lux Veritatis", która zdecydowała się na ryzykowne zainwestowanie własnych ogromnych środków na odwierty w poszukiwaniu wód geotermalnych w Toruniu? Czy to nie Pan powinien uczynić wszystko, aby rozwijać energię geotermalną w Polsce, ponieważ jest to doskonałe uzupełnienie zasobów energetycznych kraju i może w przyszłości pozytywnie wpłynąć na zwiększenie naszego bezpieczeństwa energetycznego. Tymczasem działania rządu wobec tej inwestycji - po pierwsze - wstrzymują rozwój geotermii w Polsce, a po drugie - mogą przyczynić się do tego, że Polska nie wykorzysta środków unijnych zarezerwowanych na ten cel. Panie Ministrze, czy Pan wie, że władze niemieckie dają miliony euro każdemu, kto podejmuje się inwestycji geotermalnej. Dopłacają nawet do kolektorów i baterii słonecznych, by zwiększyć produkcję czystej energii i zmniejszyć uzależnienie od importu. A my już za kilka lat będziemy płacić kary za to, że nie spełnimy limitów udziału energii odnawialnej w ogólnym bilansie energetycznym. W sytuacji gdy u naszych zachodnich, a także południowych sąsiadów rozpoczął się boom na rozwój energetyki geotermalnej, Polska znowu pozostaje w tyle, choć ma jedne z największych złóż w Europie. Cóż, jeżeli pionierskie projekty spotykają się z takim pełnym niechęci przyjęciem, trudno się dziwić niskiemu stanowi wykorzystania geotermii w naszym kraju. Na szczęście determinacja Fundacji "Lux Veritatis", a przede wszystkim obywatelska i patriotyczna postawa ojca dyrektora Radia Maryja Tadeusza Rydzyka sprawiła, że to cenne przedsięwzięcie dla Polski zostało uwieńczone sukcesem. Jako senatorowie Prawa i Sprawiedliwości dziękujemy mu za to. Panie Ministrze, z uwagi na to, że postanowienia umowy z Fundacją "Lux Veritatis" w naszej ocenie zostały rażąco naruszone przez Narodowy Fundusz Ochrony Środowiska, mamy pytania: - Czy Narodowy Fundusz Ochrony Środowiska liczy się z możliwością wystąpienia z powództwem odszkodowawczym przez Fundację za straty spowodowane niewykonaniem umowy przez ten fundusz? Czy posiada w budżecie środki przeznaczone na wypłaty, bądź co bądź, odszkodowań? - Ile umów dotacji na odnawialne źródła energii zawarto w I kwartale 2008 r.? - Jakie są planowane środki finansowe przeznaczone na odnawialne źródła energii na rok 2008? - Ile wniosków wpłynęło w okresie ostatniego półrocza na dotacje na odnawialne źródła energii i na jakim etapie procedowania się znajdują? - Jak wygląda bilans wykorzystania funduszy na odnawialne źródła energii? - Jak wyglądają możliwości wypełnienia przez Polskę obligacji nałożonej przez Unię Europejską na ustaloną 20-procentową wartość pozyskiwania energii z odnawialnych źródeł? Uprzejmie prosimy o udzielenie jasnych, jednoznacznych odpowiedzi na powyższe zapytania. Z poważaniem Ryszard Bender Witold Idczak Kazimierz Jaworski Piotr Kaleta Maciej Klima Waldemar Kraska Norbert Krajczy Zdzisław Pupa Krzysztof Majkowski Czesław Ryszka Wojciech Skurkiewicz Grzegorz Wojciechowski Stanisław Zając
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Profesor zwyczajny Julian Sokołowski, zmarły w 2004 roku to postać mało znana polskiej opinii publicznej. Jeden z najwybitniejszych geologów w skali światowej miał uznanie i zbierał liczne nagrody wtedy, kiedy zajmował się działalnością niekłócąca się z interesami lobby naftowego i gazowego. Były złote krzyże zasługi, krzyże kawalerskie, nagrody państwowe i sława za odkrycie złóż gazu na Niżu Polskim. O potrzebie niezależności energetycznej i wykorzystaniu własnych zasobów mówił na długo przed rządem Buzka, który to sobie przypisuje pionierstwo w tej dziedzinie.
Słynny geolog nafty i gazu z dorobkiem mnóstwa publikacji nagle zmienił kierunek swoich zainteresowań. Dostrzegł, że Polska zrządzeniem opatrzności lub, jak kto woli niesłychanego szczęścia i zbiegu okoliczności leży w 80% na niesłychanie bogatych zasobach wód geotermalnych mogących stanowić niewyczerpane źródła energii. Wieloletnim dziełem życia było dokonanie pionierskiej oceny zasobu energii geotermalnej w Polsce dającej oszałamiające i niepodważalne wyniki. Mało tego. Prof. Sokołowski opracował metodykę wykorzystywanie tej energii oraz zaprojektował i wybudował pierwszy w Polsce doświadczalny zakład geotermalny w Bańskiej-Białym Dunajcu. Są gotowe projekty takich zakładów dla Warszawy i Szczecina.
Niestety, patriotyczna wizja energetycznego uniezależnienia się Polski przypominająca szklane domy Żeromskiego nie była miła dla energetycznego lobby i stwarzała zagrożenie dla różnych Stoenów i Enionów. Zwłaszcza, że nie była to już czysta teoria, a naukowo udokumentowane złoża i opracowane, przemysłowe metody ich wykorzystania. Wielki patriota Julian Sokołowski swoje poglądy mógł wygłaszać jedynie na antenie Radia Maryja i czynił to przez długie lata. I tak redemptorystom przybył kolejny wielki wróg-lobby energetyczne z dziwnymi spółkami muzyków, i pośrednikami w handlu ropą i gazem, których miliardy kręcą mediami i politykami.
Atak wrogów uniezależnienia się Polski na Tadeusza Rydzyka nie jest przypadkowy. Wykonanie dwóch odwiertów w Toruniu i wykorzystanie ich energii stałoby się namacalnym dowodem na słuszność wybitnego polskiego geologa.
Po cofnięciu dotacji w wysokości 26 milionów złotych rząd Tuska szuka sposobu na zablokowanie publicznej zbiórki pieniędzy. Mimo wszystko odwierty rozpoczęły się w ostatnia sobotę.
Wydobywana gorąca woda po oddaniu swojej energii wraca drugim otworem z powrotem głąb ziemi, gdzie ponownie podgrzewa się do temperatury około 90 C. I tak w kółko, bez dymu, gazów cieplarnianych i zanieczyszczeń środowiska.
Atak na geotermię można przeprowadzić jedynie atakując ojca Rydzyka i Radio Maryja.
Dorobek profesora Sokołowskiego, jego osiągnięcia i podane na tacy złoża i metody ich wykorzystania nie pozwalają zrobić z niego oszołoma.
Jako ciekawostkę podam, że z takich dwóch otworów można uzyskać 20 MW energii.
Biorąc pod uwagę gotowe plany wykonane przez profesora dla ponad 400 polskich gmin i kilku większych miast daje to 10 000 MW. Dla przykładu elektrownia w Bełchatowie zapewnia 20% zapotrzebowania na energię elektryczną i wytwarza 4440 MW.
Co prawda energia geotermalna w większości ma służyć ogrzewaniu, ale biorąc pod uwagę, że możliwość jej wykorzystania występuję w prawie 2000 gmin to okazuje się, że jakimś niewyjaśnionym cudem obecne granice Polski czynią ją geotermalnym i niewykorzystanym eldorado. Lobby paliwowe będzie zwalczać toruńskie odwierty do upadłego. To gwarantuje dalsze istnienie wielu fortun i politycznych wieloletnich karier.
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Rev. Msgr Ireneusz Skubis talks to Fr Tadeusz Rydzyk, Director of Radio Maryja and chairman of the Lux Veritatis Foundation, about the project of geothermal drilling.

Rev. Msgr Ireneusz Skubis: – The Lux Veritatis Foundation decided to begin geothermal drilling. How did you get interested in this problem?

Fr Tadeusz Rydzyk: – For several years we had contacts with professors who dealt with earthy thermal waters in Poland. It was 50 years ago that the late Prof. Julian Sokolowski investigated this problem. He used to come to us. And there are other scientists – Prof. Ryszard Kozlowski and Prof. Jacek Zimny. They turned our attention to these matters. I remember eating breakfast with Prof. Sokolowski on Sunday after the night programmes on Radio Maryja seven years ago, before going to Warsaw and Krakow. Prof. Sokolowski told me, ‘Let us do it here, in Torun, at the Higher School of Social and Media Culture. We had just bought the plot to build our school on. Prof. Sokolowski had schemes showing the ‘floor’ of the earth, the interior of the earth. He could not speak about it aloud for 52 years. It often happened that when something was discovered it was sealed, filled with concrete, and this procedure was continued. He explained how important drilling was, saying, ‘I would like very much do it for Poland! Let us make a model project here. And the whole area will be a green ecological island. There will be no coal and oil and even gas.’ He presented such perspectives. So I said, ‘Gentlemen, do it if it is something good!’ And they prepared the whole project, which we submitted to the Ministry later.

– So the proposals and plans came from experts...

– From the Krakow scientists who have dealt with energy resources for years. Naturally, under the supervision of Prof. Julian Sokolowski.

– How have these plans been made concrete?

– We submitted our projects to the National Fund for Environmental Protection, which is subordinated to the Ministry of Environmental Protection. In April 2006, a concession was granted to us and in June 2007 we signed an agreement, and in November 2007 we signed an annex to this agreement. When we were negotiating with the companies that could realise our project I learnt that such undertakings were not successful in Poland. Why have such projects been successful, for example in the United States, Germany, Austria, Japan and other countries and they will not come off in Poland and they will not be profitable as we have been constantly told? The interesting thing is that other companies come to Poland and buy some factory, which we regard as unprofitable, and they succeed. Where is the core of the problem? Scientists and specialists have found out that the problem is that improper pipes are used when the resources are found. The pipes get deteriorated very quickly because geothermal waters have different levels of salinity, they are mineralised, etc. I am asking, ‘Why has this not been a problem in other places?’ It turns out that they use fibreglass pipes. We decided to see them. And we began sending letters and e-mails, which took long time to be delivered and sometimes were not delivered at all. I leant that one could buy such pipes but it turned out that you had to wait for them for a long time. They are produced, e.g. in America. At some moment I said to Fr Jan Krol, ‘The correspondence takes more time than travelling there. Would you like to go to America to see the pipes yourself? And to go to the factories where these pipes are produced… Time is precious and we cannot afford paying for mistakes.’ And Fr Krol visited at least two centres; he saw things himself and we were even more convinced that we should follow that direction. Our financial advisor and a specialist in geothermal projects went with Fr Krol. We decided, considering economical reasons, to install fibreglass pipes in these places where they could be exposed to oxygen and corrosion. We wrote to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, to the National Fund for Environmental Protection, that our agreement should be changed and an annex should be made. The pipes should be such and such and they are much more expensive. And the whole affair has began: they say we made the costs much higher, that in other places they make it cheaper, that it will not be profitable because all things will go wrong and they have given examples for that in Poland. I repeated over and over again that in Poland it did not come off but Germany succeeded, that Japan used such pipes as early as in 1970 and they have been all right so far, that we must learn from better examples.

– What agreements did you sign and with whom?

– The first agreement was signed with the National Fund for Environmental Protection, then an annex was added and the whole noise in the media began…

– What does the matter of the costs of the investment look like?

– The first project was to cost 15 million zloty, and then the sum was raised to 28 million zloty. The Office for Environmental Protection has funds for ecology, which amounts to over 10 billion zloty at present. Our drilling is so expensive since it is an experimental-research project and researches cost very much. The drilling has already begun; samples are taken every 5 metres and examined. The drilling would have been cheaper if there had been no research. However, we received a concession for experimental-research works. The problem began with the new government. In January 2008, the Minister of Environmental Protection, being in contact with the National Fund for Environmental Protection, affirmed us that all things were OK, the agreement had no legal infringements and such drilling would be realised. In May, the Fund terminated the agreement unilaterally. And we faced a serious problem. What to do? We have the concession; we already signed a contract with a firm that started drilling. We have obligations. We have invested several million zloty; the works have begun and all people know that we are realising the project – and now, out of sudden, are we to withdraw? The concession was granted for two years. If we do not do anything within this period the concession will be lost. And all things tell us that this is for the good of the nation… I say, ‘We are going to Jasna Gora. We will entrust this matter to the Mother of God. We came there with the Radio Maryja Family. We came to the Queen, to the Mother of God, who is our and my Mother. I arrived at Jasna Gora and said, ‘Mother, help! What am I to do? We cannot give up; we have invested too much; the risk of losing something great for Poland is too high.’ And we appealed to people, stressing that we entrusted the matter to Lord God and the Most Blessed Mother. Radio Maryja is also a work of the nation; without people, without collaboration, without prayer, without help, without kindliness it would not exist. Like with other works. This is the way in the Church… People must know about this. Moreover, I see it as a realisation of the social teaching of the Church. We have two most important commandments: love your God and love your neighbour. Love of your neighbour is nothing else but realising the social teaching of the Church. Therefore, we must make people realise: we have resources, we have energy, and we have a possibility to be self-sufficient! Poland is very rich but we should only take these riches, which God has given us, into our hands. We shall see. Perhaps we will succeed. Of course, all things are not certain since the drillings are only single points. However, I trust Lord God and scientists.

– Father Director, you said on Television Trwam that it would be a monument to the solidarity of the Polish nation. What did you mean?

– To tell you the truth, every sanctuary is a monument to the solidarity between people and the Church, the teaching of Christ, a sign of identifying with him. I can see every action on Radio Maryja in this way: it is a work of the solidarity of the nation, a big part of the nation. Similarly, the recent work is a living monument to solidarity in a difficult situation we have faced. And what is solidarity? ‘There is no solidarity without love’, said John Paul II and repeated after St Paul, ‘Bear one another's burdens’ (cf. Galatians 6:2). I have the impression that the situation got complicated for political reasons. When the government was changed, the aversion towards Radio Maryja and to our school intensified. Earlier we saw what the attitude of some group towards us was, I mean, during the election or even earlier. Calling our listeners ‘mohair berets’, showing disrespect for them, is not actually a form of aversion; it is something more. One can see the tendency to tell us that Poles cannot succeed, that they are hopeless. Sowing crops is unprofitable, and growing something is not profitable and neither is doing something. And our shipyards, mines, agriculture are being destroyed… Running hospitals is unprofitable, so you should give them away, privatise them. Poles must leave Poland and look for jobs somewhere else. And we can see the results: broken families, ruined people… Poles cannot succeed at anything. The Church cannot succeed and a priest cannot succeed. But other people go round all these riches in Poland. They sell them in such a way that the contracts have marks of stealing someone’s possessions. And that’s why we say, ‘No! We are not losers and our country is a wealthy country. One should only take over and use well this richness for the benefit of us all.


Nasz Dziennik, 2008-11-22
Z prof. dr. hab. inż. Ryszardem H. Kozłowskim z Politechniki Krakowskiej rozmawia Marcin Austyn Rada Ministrów przyjęła już projekt ustawy Prawo geologiczne i górnicze, który w nowy sposób reguluje własność strategicznych zasobów przyrodniczych i ustanawia je z zasady własnością Skarbu Państwa. Czy te zmiany idą w dobrym kierunku? - Przede wszystkim zasoby przyrodnicze są własnością Narodu i powinny być oddane gminom jako własność komunalna i to gminy winny być dysponentami tych złóż. To jest jedyna bariera przeciwko temu, co w ostatnich latach dzieje się w Polsce, czyli ciągłej wyprzedaży naszego majątku. Przecież zasoby litosfery są jednym z kolejnych łakomych kąsków. Zasoby będące własnością Skarbu Państwa będą źle zagospodarowane? - Zaproponowane zmiany mogą sugerować, że Skarb Państwa uzurpuje sobie rolę dysponenta strategicznych zasobów, co biorąc pod uwagę dotychczasowy sposób szafowania majątkiem narodowym, nie wróży niczego dobrego. Ministrowie skarbu, środowiska, gospodarki powinni mnożyć i dbać o powierzony im skarb. Tymczasem mamy do czynienia z trwonieniem majątku. Tak też może się stać z zasobami przyrodniczymi. Ten skarb oddany w ręce kolejnych ministrów nie będzie właściwie zagospodarowany. W moim przekonaniu, powinien funkcjonować zapis, że zasoby przyrodnicze litosfery, biosfery, hydrosfery są własnością Narodu i mogą być oddane gminie jako własność komunalna. Gmina staje się wówczas ich dysponentem i nie ma prawa do ich odsprzedaży, ale może wchodzić w kontrakty dla uruchomienia wydobycia czy przetwórstwa na ściśle określony czas. Inne rozwiązanie, a szczególnie "sprzedawanie na wieczność" zasobów przyrodniczych, jest nieporozumieniem. Sądzi Pan, że w Polsce brakuje troski o zasoby przyrodnicze? - Przypomnę tylko, że z Konstytucji RP wykreślony został zapis, który stanowił zasoby przyrodnicze własnością Narodu. Historia pokazuje też, że nie honorowany był zapis o racjonalnym wykorzystaniu zasobów przyrodniczych. Premier Jerzy Buzek zlikwidował 28 kopalń, w których zostało udokumentowanych 18 mld ton węgla. To nieporozumienie.

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Jest to wypowiedź pana Piotra Szubarczyka, pracownika naukowego Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej w Gdańsku, na temat bezkarności zbrodniarzy z Urzędu Bezpieczeństwa, komunistycznego sądownictwa i prokuratury odpowiedzialnych za śmierć INKI, bezkarności do dziś... Fragment reportażu poświęconego pamięci Danuty Siedzikówny Inki, zrealizowanego i wyemitowanego przez TV Trwam w 2007 roku

Ross Perot was interviewed by Rita Cosby

Ross Perot was interviewed by Rita Cosby

Ross Perot was interviewed by Rita Cosby

Ross Perot Interview with Rita Cosby today (8/8/08) at 4 PM EDT
Posted on August 8th, 2008 in Radio by PerotCharts
Update: Ross Perot was interviewed by Rita Cosby on the Steve Malzberg show on 8/8/2008. The broadcast can be downloaded in mp3 format from wor710.com. Or you can listen to the show by clicking this link. Look for “The Steve Malzberg Show - August 8, 2008 - Hour 2″ and click the Play button in that section. Alternatively, you can click the Itunes in the same location to download a podcast for your iPod.

Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913

Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913


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Ex- CIA Polish Spy for USA ( not for money just to help US ) Boris Korczak on World Events Must see Video

Ex- CIA Polish Spy for USA ( not for money just to help US ) Boris Korczak on World Events Must see Video
Poland help so much to US and why we are exluded from the Visa vaiver program.
US aid to Poland is about 39 millions US Dollars per year and we give billions to Israel, Pakistan, Egypt. Turkey, Georgia, Iraq
Must see the vodeo below
Ex- CIA Polish Spy for USA ( not for money just to help US ) Boris Korczak on World Events Must see Video P 1


Ex- CIA Polish Spy for USA ( not for money just to help US ) Boris Korczak on World Events Must see Video P 2

Polish Taxi driver beaten by 3 Americans Navy Servicemen in Gdynia- Gdansk Poland last Night.

Polish Taxi driver beaten by 3 Americans Navy Servicemen in Gdynia- Gdansk Poland last Night.

We have to ask US Department of State, Department of Navy for a deep apology and compensation to the hard working and polite Polish Taxi Driver beaten by American Navy Servicemen’s-hooligans and of the official military duty.

This will put the bad light on the law that governs American Navy and Army stations in Poland and Europe as a whole.

Poland is not another third world country when US and Blackwater can do what ever they want! We are country of law and order.

US Navy Serviceman for act of hooliganism shall be prosecuted and arrested the same night. The same way as any polish citizens.



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ANTI-SEMITISM AND POLONOPHOBIA Sets the Record Straight on Polish-Jewish Relations

ANTI-SEMITISM AND POLONOPHOBIA Sets the Record Straight on Polish-Jewish Relations

In recent years, there has been a great deal of emphasis on Polish anti-Semitism. This is despite the fact that anti-Semitism existed virtually everywhere, and in Poland never approached the level which Jews encounted in many other European nations. Moreover, the positive aspects of Polish-Jewish relationships have been virtually ignored. Pogonowski's excellent book does much to show, in fact, how Jewish communities flourished in Poland.

This review updates an earlier one, and refers to the 1998 paperback edition. This latter edition contains several articles not found in the original hardback edition. The authors trace many mischaracterizations of Polish-Jewish history in the American press. The informed reader can appreciate how little has changed since then. For example, the recent publications of NEIGHBORS and FEAR by Jan T. Gross have resurrected many old Polonophobic canards that should have been, if nowhere else, laid to rest by this 1998 edition.

There is an extensive expose of the so-called Kielce Pogrom--A Soviet-staged event (pp. 403-422). The Soviets wanted to discredit a free Poland in the eyes of the west, and to terrorize the remaining Jews into fleeing to Palestine. Other anti-Jewish actions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia got little press in the west, probably because anti-Communism had been relatively weak in those countries.

In Kielce, the tale of the blood libel had been spread by agent provocateurs (p. 414). The Jews were shot by Communist police, and club-wielding fake "steel workers" also took their toll. Other Communist police involved in the so-called pogrom had been dressed as goons or priests. There is the fantastic myth of the 15,000 to 75,000 cheering Polish onlookers (p. 406), a myth recently repeated by Gross in his FEAR. The actual number of Polish onlookers, most of whom were probably motivated by curiosity, didn't ever exceed several hundred at its peak.

After the "pogrom", inconvenient eyewitnesses met their deaths. The Kielce files themselves were burned in November 1989, shortly before the Communists left power.

Pogonowski makes clear that the Communist anti-Jewish policies of 1968 were not Polish. They were plainly Soviet-dictated (pp. 30-31).

The atlas itself is chock-full of useful information. The reader soon learns that, despite the frictions and mutual prejudices which sometimes developed between Poles and Jews, Poland was historically one of the most tolerant nations in the world for Jews. If the fact that 80% of the world's Jews, at one time, made their home in Poland does not prove this fact, then what does? This book makes it clear that Poland had been centuries ahead of others in terms of human rights and religious tolerance.

Iwo Pogonowski's book is a veritable mine of information about Polish-Jewish relations since the Middle Ages. This subject has been badly distorted in the English-language publications, mostly for reasons that have nothing to do either with history or honesty. "Jews in Poland" needs to be read slowly, in small doses, with frequent returns because sometimes a very important fact is hidden in a footnote or some such obscure place. This volume looks and reads like a scrapbook, and the impression is reinforced by its graphic aspect.
"Jews in Poland" is full of very instructional maps and diagrams, it also carries a good selection of illustrations (although their quality is rather so-so). All in all, a book that stands head and shoulders over any other treatment of Jewish-Polish history in the English language.



Of course Polish anti-Semitism existed and still exists. So does Jewish Polonophobia. In fact, the very Polonophobia whose existence Pelta denies has been the subject of studies by academics, including Jewish ones. The premise that more Poles denounced Jews than helped them has mathematically been shown to be false. Of course, fugitive Polish Jews were denounced not only by ethnic Poles, but more so by Polish-speaking Germans (Volksdeutsche), Ukrainians, and other Jews. (To elaborate on these two issues, and many others, see my Listmania: Exposing Polonophobia...).

THE KIELCE POGROM
Why does Pelta imagine that I deny the fact of the Kielce Pogrom? And of course there were other disturbances in Poland (see below). But this in no way negates the probable Soviet staging of the Kielce Pogrom.

OLD MEDIA CLIPS ON POGROMS
Old newspaper accounts prove nothing. Time and time again, the western press had uncritically printed accounts from Jewish sources that later turned out to be fabricated or greatly exaggerated. For instance, Jewish sources in 1918 spoke of massive pogroms in Poland where thousands to tens of thousands of Jews were killed. The outraged Wilson administration sent Henry Morgenthau, an American Jew and his team, to investigate. It turns out that the actual number of Jews killed was about 280, and a large fraction of them had been the victim of common crimes (whose victims also included Polish gentiles), caused largely by the breakdown of discipline in the then-inexperienced Polish Army.

In the 1930's, there was a big hullabaloo about the Przytyk Pogrom. It turns out that all of 2 (two!) Jews died in it, as did one Pole.

The total number of Jews in Poland killed in the years after WWII comes out to 300-600, and most of these were the victims of common banditry (rampant in Poland at the time), rather than anti-Semitism. Higher figures (e. g., 1500 or 2000) are completely conjectural. Considering the fact that about 300,000 Polish Jews survived the Nazi occupation, the Jewish death toll comes out to 0.1-0.2% of Poland's remaining Jews. If this is not making a mountain out of a molehill, then what is?

I wouldn't be surprised if more Jews were killed in horse-carriage accidents than in all the Polish pogroms. So, if anything, Jews should fear for their lives more from horses than from Poles. In addition, Jews also killed Poles, and certainly not only in self-defense...But that's another subject in itself.

POLISH "FREEDOMS" UNDER GERMAN RULE
Pelta tries to diminish Polish suffering under the German Nazi occupation by making the bogus argument about Germans allowing Poles to move around, but not Jews. How ridiculous! To begin with, the Germans, under the wartime conditions, lacked the manpower to arrest and ship 28 million ethnic Poles into urban ghettos. Secondly, most Poles, unlike Jews, were farmers, and the Germans HAD to allow them to move around in order to enable them to farm their lands and deliver their goods to market or to collecting points (mostly for German confiscation). Finally, the Germans couldn't kill many more than the 2-3 million Poles they killed because it would have interfered too much with German war production (for further elaboration, see my Listmania: Forgotten Holocaust: Nazi Genocide Against Poles).

SPARED "POLES" AND JEWS
Pelta also tries to diminish Polish suffering by asserting that Germans spared Polish children but not Jewish children. He is wrong on both counts.

The Germans knowingly and deliberately spared various full-blooded German Jews (the Schutzjuden), including children, and relabeled them Aryans. So the old argument that "Unlike any other people subject to genocide, the Jews were uniquely targeted for complete extermination" is false.

Polish children with racially-desirable features were thought by Germans to be self-evidently of German descent. So the kidnapping of Polish children and their raising by German families was not any sort of mercy to Poles, but an act of taking actually-German children and subjecting them to de-Polonization and re-Germanization in a German environment.

WHO IS STIFLING DEBATE?
Pelta's remark about the Poles attempting to stifle debate is as laughable as an ant calling a sauropod dinosaur a tiny creature. Fact is, it has always been the Jewish side trying to stifle debate by leveling the charge of anti-Semitism against anyone who disagrees with Judeocentric premises or who points out any Jewish wrongdoing. In fact, the accusation of anti-Semitism has become so overused that-like the boy crying wolf-- its effect has worn off.

Certain Jewish individuals and groups have joined the left-wingers in their smear campaign against RADIO MARYJA, and in attempts to get it shut down-all because its patriotic and religious message doesn't fit their worldview. Talk about attempting to stifle debate! (Charges about RADIO MARYJA being racist and anti-Semitic are completely bogus and slanderous. I have listened to RADIO MARYJA a long time and never once heard a single derogatory remark about any racial or religious group).

RESCUING JEWS
Considering the risks Poles took to so much as give a Jew a glass of water, Pelta should be ashamed of himself for his remarks.

Of course relatively few Poles helped Jews. To begin with, only a small fraction of Polish Jews had escaped from the ghettos to make themselves accessible to Polish help. And Poles lived under constant German surveillance and terror. Duh...

Pelta's wisecrack about Poles rescuing Jewish babies in order to convert them to Christianity is too absurd to dignify with a response.

PROPERTY RESTITUTION
Property loss during war is a common situation. My parents and grandparents were relieved of their property, of course without compensation, by the Soviets following their conquest of eastern Poland in 1939. Churchill and Roosevelt made it permanent by recognizing the Soviet annexation of eastern Poland at Teheran in 1943. So, as the rightful heir, from whom should I seek compensation? From Russia and/or the Ukraine? Or from the British and American governments? Or from all four?

EXERCISING KINDNESS
Considering the no small amount of moral arrogance with which many Jews talk down to Poles, dare I suggest that the Jewish side is in need of learning kindness more than the Polish side?

Jan Peczkis

Poland and US making the Argentinean mistake? Are there any similarities?

Poland and US making the Argentinean mistake? Are there any similarities?



It was a few years ago when corporate TV stations showed a terrible situation in Argentina – a country of a stormy past, but in a pretty good shape since the introduction of global economy. Crowds of people protesting in the streets, soldiers shooting at them. Smoke, squibs, fire and unemployment surpassing 22 per cent. In 2001 Argentina was on the bottom of an abyss, from which – according to Western economists – there was no escape. Globalists, industrialists and bankers were massively leaving the country taking away with them whatever still could be taken. The media were ordered to forget about that country and its sheer existence.

In December 2001 Argentina fund herself in an economical hole into which it was pushed by its elites and globalism. The banks stopped paying out the money. Nobody was able to control the economy of the country. President Carlos Menem, previously in power, an industrialist chosen for the post in 1989, had promised Argentineans beautiful women and Ferrari cars. But through the back door he would sell out the country’s assets to foreign hands for ridiculously low prices. He borrowed large sums of money from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The citizens of Argentina, which thanks to the borrowed money was prospering like never before, cheered for their President and declared him a genius of the free market.

The idyll ended when they had to start paying back the borrowed money. In 2001 the gross domestic product went down as much as 11 per cent. However, the country did not receive any additional funds or any concrete pieces of advice from the IMF.

The history of Argentina is full of unsuccessful uprisings, sudden upheavals, protests and wars. It is also full of poverty of masses and unimaginable richness of a small group of the chosen ones. It is full of corruption, horrible torture and fascist prisons. But by the end of 1990s the whole world was left speechless. What was going on the streets of Argentina was a warning and a prophecy for the enthusiasts of global economy.

In private the journalists were wondering how it was possible to ruin a whole country in such a short time. How was it possible that no one noticed that and no one counter-reacted? Such questions were circulating in the Internet and in private conversations. But newspapers and TV bulletins were chasing for sensation and blubbering about fiscal irresponsibility on a large scale. Average Argentineans and the new president, De la Rua, were soon to be blamed for everything.

Argentina was alive and kicking, but corporate media did not want to let the public know about it. In 1999, when De la Rua was chosen President and the country had already been in recession for 3 years, conniving CNN would announce that Menem had not been re-elected because he could not enter for election for the third time, according to the constitution. However, he said that he would enter the election in 2003. Menem belonged to Peronists party, the biggest political power in Argentina. He was closely linked with the USA, globalism and free market.

The new President of Argentina had almost no move. Peronists were still in power and they attacked him from the very beginning. De la Rua asked his countrymen in his speeches: ‘Please, understand how important is unity. I want to be the President of all Argentineans.’

When economic crash came, International Monetary Fund was the first to wash their hands. Its experts claimed that Argentina spent too much Money although the country’s budget was much smaller than the budget of the USA during the Great Depression. When the economists ridiculed such an explanation, the lawyers of IMF began their attack. They claimed that Argentina had had such rights to distribute the loans to which the Fund had to adjust and which made normal economical functioning impossible. It means that the Fund wants us to believe that poor Argentina dictated them the conditions.

All that show was supervised by the elites of the USA. For the last 55 years, during the whole existence of the International Monetary Fund, the voice of the United States has been decisive. Other rich member countries could easily oppose the USA in voting and win, but by some strange coincidence they never did. When we take a closer look at IMF we will find out that in fact it is only a group of lenders ruled by the American Treasury. We should not be surprised then that the American government (and the obedient American and Western media after them) unanimously stated that Argentina must be submissive to the rules imposed on her by the IMF.

Economical analysis

Today we know already why Argentina’s economy collapsed, although the media do not want to say it. I am begging here for a special attention of the readers in Poland. In 1991 Menem based the country’s economy on a ‘higher’ currency which was the American dollar. A stable exchange rate of 1:1 between the dollar and the Argentinean peso was introduced. Menem hoped that the dollar would soon become the circulating currency in Argentina. It was quite a good idea at first, but soon it turned out that the value of the dollar was overrated. Automatically the value of the Argentinean peso was also overvalued. Let us pay attention how the euro is functioning in Poland.

At the moment when investors figured out that the value of the peso is overrated they started fearing that it would fall. That is why they began demanding higher and higher interest rates on everything. Also on private and government loans. It caused a huge debt. The interest rate was raised to 40 per cent.

To keep up the parity on the American currency, the Argentinian government had to have adequate amount of American dollars in the banks. The more the crisis developed the more American dollars the government had to buy for a significantly overrated price. More and more people demanded transactions in cash. This process pushed Argentina into a debt of 140 billion of dollars. In December 2001 the Argentinian government announced to the world that they are not able to pay anything. Argentina became the pariah of nations.

To keep up the overrated value of the peso, International Monetary Fund gave Argentina huge loans. Only in one year to the country’s Treasury were sent 40 billion dollars as a package organised by many lending institutions. Only one basic requirement that was to guarantee that these loans would be paid off was to maintain zero budget deficit. Which meant that Argentina had to oscillate on 100 per cent of the budget. It is impossible during a recession to keep 100% of a budget, besides it takes some painful operations like serious cuts in the budget, which in turn cause high level of unemployment eventually leading to street fighting on a big scale.

How did that process look like from the point of view of an average, hard-working Argentinian? At the beginning of the 1990s Argentinians were encouraged to buy almost everything. Companies were privatized and incorporated into conglomerates. People were encouraged to build houses by giving them low-mortgage loans. People were asked to set up their own companies and those who were laid off were given compensation packages. Luxury cars were shown to the middle class and sold for very low down-payments for high-percentage loans and long-term payments. The media shouted out that the situation is so good, that everybody would be able to afford to pay off the loans on cars or houses. ‘You can have everything now – you will pay off later!’. The Argentinians – like Poles today – enjoyed the prosperity not knowing that a trap had been set up for them. After 40 years of poverty and wars they could at last have in their gardens or garages what so far they had seen in American films.

With the Western capital came the people whose task was to watch its flow. They taught Argentinians what the free market and global economy is about. Soon they had such huge influence on Argentina’s administrating structure that the country, practically speaking, lost its independence.

In the situation when the American dollar was bought with the peso at the rate of 1:1, everything that was produced in Argentina (as well as services) was too expensive to be exported. The whole country – just like Poland and other countries – was literally choked to death. Import of goods was much cheaper than their production. In that way almost 10% of gross domestic product was destroyed.

Mass privatizations at the beginning of the 1990s of almost all national assets for a fraction of its market value had already caused unemployment on a big scale. Mainly electricity, municipal and telecommunication companies were privatized. Globalists know very well how to do it. You start privatizing from the chosen key sectors. After that, other co-operating sectors become incompatible. Then there is no way out but to privatize all other sectors in the structure upwards. When the spiral of privatization went up, the spiral of dismissions from work went down. At the bottom there was a bigger and bigger number of unemployed people ending up with no means of living.

On the scale of the country, the spiral movement up was balanced by the movement down. Finally more and more people stopped doing their shopping and the money stopped circulating. So did the taxes. Poor Argentinians did not pay taxes because they had nothing – instead, they started buying rifles. When the money stopped circulating, now privatised companies laid off more and more people to keep up the economy of their firms. Those three inter-related crisises (taxes, unemployment, overrated value of the currency) get the Argentinian government to beg IMF for help or advice. International Monetary Fund, after long negotiations, made their decision. ‘Argentina is too much in debt. We can’t help. Let us leave that country in the state of free falling into an abyss.’ Also, during many military councils the decision was made how to cut off Argentina from the outside world if the expected rebellion of armed Argentinians was to spread across the borders.

This decision by IMF get the Argentinians (who foresaw the fall of the value of the peso) to rush to the banks to pay out their savings. The banks were closed, the salaries in many sectors of the country’s economy were held up. In desperation, the President declared that Argentina stopped paying off her debts. The press foretold that in the country there would be hair-raising scenes and after that they lost their interest in the matter.

The Argentinian miracle

It seemed that there was no retreat for Argentina. The rats began to leave the sinking ship. President Menem left for Chile. The businessmen and their international advisors were leaving for their countries. Even small investors, whose parents had come to Argentina in search for a better life, frantically tried to get entry visas to their mother countries. Whole factories with full machinery equipment were left behind – it was not profitable to produce there anything any more. The workers were laid off with nothing. Beautiful residences with swimming-pools were left abandoned, as well as whole office blocks lined out with marble. Those who had led to that crisis were moving like locust on other fields which could still be eaten up.

’Time’ magazine was wondering: ‘What can President De la Rua do now? This is a million-dollar question. Whether alone or in a coalition, he immediately needs a plan to ease the crisis. He has to help his countrymen to fill their stomachs and, maybe, to revive economical growth. The problem is that – to ease the results of the crisis concerning poor people – the government has to spend millions of dollars on food and basic needs. And this will cause a further escalation of the financial crisis. Something must happen…’

And it did happen! The Argentinians trusted their President who broke the negotiations with international financiers. The army, police and ordinary people lined up in support. They claimed that Argentina belonged to Argentinians, not to international financial mafia. The Argentinian government, left alone, made a decision which get the White House and international bankers furious. Against their recommendation, the exchange rate of the peso was freed. Minister of Economy, Roberto Lavagna, stated: ‘Having competitive prices of currency exchange will help our export and enable fulfillment of the country’s needs.’ They also decided to end the free market policy to which the country’s economy was a prisoner. An economical co-operation with Brazil and China was established. Some capital started to flow to the country. The central bank began to buy the dollar again, but only as much as necessary to keep up the economic growth.

When Argentina announced that after 3 years from the moment of separation from degenerated ideas of globalists she was able to pay 30 cents for every dollar of her debt and keep up her unprecedented economical growth, at first nobody believed her. Then the media were strictly forbidden to inform about it. We should not be surprised as it is a palpable proof how quickly an economy of a given country and life of its citizens can improve when they forget about globalist absurdities.

In December 2004 the British ‘Guardian’ wrote: Three years ago, in December, Argentina was in crisis. The economy was rolling down uncontrolled into an abyss, banks closed their door to the investors, company presidents changed every week. Today the common opinion among the economists in Buenos Aires are that the country has left the worst behind. Yes, Argentina is still fighting with a complicated process of reconstruction of her debt, but the economy has undergone incredible changes.’

Like Phoenix, the economy has risen from the ashes. After an 11-per-cent fall in 2002, in 2003 the domestic product rose almost 9% and it will rise another 8% this year*. The government carefully announces that GDP will rise 4% in 2005, but most experts in economy believe that in fact the growth will be 5%.

The assumptions of ‘free market’ were bad for jobs and employment. In 2002 the unemployment reached its peak with 22%. Now it is 12%.

Whether you are faithful believers or not, some commentators say about the rise of Argentina as of a miracle which Rodrigo Rato, the director of IMF, could not cause. The hand of God turned out to be more powerful than the hand of International Monetary Fund. Now nobody is cheating any more.

Another thing which is hidden by the media was the fact of absolute unification of the working class with the management class. When the factory owners closed their firms and fled to other countries, their workers and directors occupied nearby cafes and park benches. When they were sitting idly on the streets, they were discussing how to improve their life and situation of their country, doomed to fail. The employees of such abandoned factories as Zanon looked at the gates melancholically. They spent most of their lives in those factories. Finally they made up their minds. They entered the grounds of their empty and devastated factories, started the machines and began production out of the materials which were still in the warehouses.

The authorities and the army looked at that almost communist-like behaviour of the people in a friendly manner. Soon department managers, office clerks and economic directors joined the turners, polishers and warehouse men. In the record-breaking time sales and export were initiated. There were no fixed hours of work. The decisions concerning their factories were taken by the people during short production meetings.

It turned out that the production is profitable and needed. What had not been profitable for globalists started to be such for common people without the help from banks and financial cartels. Soon production and sales reached their record levels in some factories. The people shared the profit with one another. They had never earned such sums of money before. So, they started to spend them. Thus building industry and other branches of industry got moving.

All that happened so quickly that America did not even have enough time to declare Argentina a communist country. The Movement of Unemployed Workers (MTD) was established. Soon this organisation had the power to influence politics. And that was yet another mystery of the Argentinian miracle.

The rats come back

The situation of Argentina began to improve. Globalists and factory owners began to come back and demand a return of their factories taken over by the people. Those who had left the country on the verge of a civil war 3 years before, now have some claims quoting international laws. Does that remind the Poles of something?

MTD, which was created almost literally on the streets, is strong. The organization is threatening with mass demonstrations. The ceramics factory, Zanon, the first one to be taken over by its workers and revived to the state of a profitable works, has become a symbol of the new and better, like Gdansk Shipyard used to be for Poles. MTD is considered by CIA and other similar organizations as a group which managed to create the most modern strategies and solutions how to unite and defend people from capitalism.

The returning rats from international financial circles are fighting back. Because Argentina constitutes a serious threat to the whole global economy, we should assume that if the USA wasn’t involved in Iraq now, the American soldiers would be defending their oil under the Argentinian grass in the name of democracy, or would be defending the freedom of their country there.

Kirchner, new President of Argentina, demands the extradition of the ex-president Carlos Menem, who is in Chile. Menem is wanted by the Argentinian authorities for corruption and bringing the country to ruin. He planned to enter for the presidential election in 2007 and used to promise the factory owners to return their property. Of course, that is why he enjoys the support from international financiers and can afford to laugh at the orders and decisions of Argentinian courts of law.

In January 2005 international bankers agreed to the proposal from the Argentinian government to be paid 25 cents for every dollar of the debt. An unseen thing happened – Argentina declared a war to IMF and several other globalist organizations and won. Argentina, protected by her own army, not only blackmailed the globalists, but also refused any negotiations with 700,000 holders of the state bonds. Argentina has an open way to be accepted back to the community of international societies from which she had been thrown away before. And she did it on her own conditions, as a full member, making decisions on her own.

Many bankers and international investors accuse Argentina of totalitarism and cheating investors and lenders. It caused quarrels among big financiers, Italian and American among others, who claim that if it was not for 9/11, they would be talking to Argentinians in a different manner.

Three months later IMF again began demanding a full payment of the debts. But Argentina was already strong enough being in economic co-operation with Brazil and China to show the bankers from Wall Street ‘the middle finger of her right hand’. Argentina started to prove to the world that about half of the creditors had already made a considerable profit on the Argentinian debts and that it was not fair that they should demand any more. This opinion was exposed by Chinese and Indian media. By the way, Argentina showed in black and white how some people tried to bring the country to bankruptcy and what it meant in practice.

The British ‘Guardian’ writes: ‘Three things worked for the benefit of Argentina. First, Kirchner’s card was strong thanks to the strong economy. Secondly, the truth about IMF was being revealed, that is why they wanted a quick settlement. Thirdly, Wall Street left Argentina just before the crisis and the negotiations were led by European banks. So the American Treasury was not pressed to play hard with Argentina. Also, they did not want Kirchner to make friends with a strong populist, President of Brazil, Lula.

Now many indebted countries may follow Argentina’s footsteps – and show the globalists their behind. Including Poland. And that is what the financial circles fear most. A precedence was created. A relatively non-significant country, held up against the wall, defied the wide-spread slogans of democracy, law and free market. And she won – at least so far. There has emerged a big chance for other countries. Now, when the American army is involved in Iraq, they can get rid of the yoke. You only need to want it and go for it. Just like the citizens of Argentina did, regardless of their social function, possessions and education.



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Polish émigré 5 years since entering U.S., he gets into 7 Ivy Leagues

Polish émigré 5 years since entering U.S., he gets into 7 Ivy Leagues

Poland - making a difference



By Bob Considine
TODAYShow.com contributor

Polish émigré 5 years since entering U.S., he gets into 7 Ivy Leagues
Polish émigré couldn’t speak English; now he’s admitted to 17 top schools

By Bob Considine
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 9:05 a.m. ET, Wed., June. 18, 2008
Lukasz Zbylut has taken “the old college try” to a whole new level.

The New York teenager, who emigrated from Poland only five years ago, applied to seven Ivy League schools — and was accepted by every one of them.

Now he’s thrilled to further his education at his “dream school” of choice — Harvard. What, Yale wasn’t good enough for him? How about Princeton?


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“I do feel sorry, and I feel awful for turning down such great institutions,” Zbylut told TODAY co-hosts Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira. “But it’s Harvard.”

Among the other schools he declined were Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, Cornell, Georgetown, Stanford and New York University.

There were 10 other prominent schools that also accepted the ever-smiling 18-year-old. But he knew he could only pick one.

“It’s a great feeling to have,” Zbylut added. “And it’s very exciting — and confusing, to an extent.”

A class act
Lukasz Zbylut (pronounced Loo-KASH Zbeh-LOOT) was in seventh grade when he came to the United States. At that point, he admits, he had only a limited grasp of the English language.

“It’s quite amazing that the first words you learn in any language are the curses,” Zbylut said with a laugh. “It’s ‘thank you’ and the curses. Someone should study that at some point. But I’ve come a long way since then.”

Zbylut said the transition to attending school in the U.S. was “easier than expected.”

“Schools in Poland are very rigorous, as you can imagine,” he said. “When taking my first exam, I was constantly turning to the girl next to me because in Poland, [testing] is very collaborative. Here, it’s the opposite.”

In addition to holding such high grades, Zbylut is co-captain of his school’s United Nations team; founder of its debate team; president of its mock-trial team and editor of the school newspaper. And, just for kicks, he plays soccer.

With such credentials, Lauer asked, why did Zbylut apply to so many schools when he knew he’d be accepted to so many of them?

“That isn’t really true, especially the last decade,” Zbylut explained. “[It’s] very competitive. We’re into the single digits when it comes to acceptance rates.

“I thought of myself as a great candidate, but I was never certain of getting into a single one college.”

Zbylut plans to study politics, law and philosophy at Harvard. But there was one school that actually did turn him down — the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Zbylut said he didn’t mind the snub.

“I really don’t regret it, because I would never be as passionate as a student they potentially could have given the spot to,” he said. “I’m hoping that the spot they gave would have been to someone who is very passionate about politics and everything.”

UN soldier in Lebanon trades her blue beret for a veil

UN soldier in Lebanon trades her blue beret for a veil






MARJAYOUN, Lebanon (AFP) -- Sylvia Monika Wyszomirska is a Catholic from Poland, but in an effort to integrate better into south Lebanon's conservative society she has traded her UN peacekeeper's beret for a headscarf during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.


""Out of respect for the environment I work in, I feel I need to try to integrate myself"" during Ramadan, said 37-year-old Wyszomirska who has been stationed in the country for four months.

""And since my contingent is deployed in a Muslim area, I have decided to wear the hijab,"" the Muslim veil, over military fatigues, the mother of a little girl told AFP.

Wyszomirska chose a veil in the same light shade of blue used for the berets worn by members of the 13,000-strong United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which keeps the peace along the tense Lebanon-Israel border.

A native of Krakow, Wyszomirska works as a translator for the 200-member Polish contingent of UNIFIL, and her job brings her into direct contact with the people who live in Shiite-majority villages across the Marjayoun region.

Her deployment to southern Lebanon is not Wyszomirska's first encounter with Muslim tradition. She has also been to Kuwait and Iraq and worked in Syria as well to perfect her Arabic.

""When I was studying Middle Eastern languages at Jagiellonski university back home we also learned about the customs, traditions, history and geography of the countries we might end up working in -- places like Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Kuwait,"" she said.

Wyszomirska's decision to wear the veil during Ramadan has helped to break the ice with local villagers, both for her personally and for her colleagues in the Polish contingent.

""At first relations were lukewarm, especially since we don't come from a rich country with things to offer the people,"" she said. ""All we can offer them is respect and a smile. But since I started wearing the veil, people have been more welcoming with me and also with my colleagues. This has opened more doors and opportunities to strike up friendships.”

""They began inviting us into their homes for coffee or sweets. And when we pass by the children smile and wave at us,"" she said.

""Today I feel almost as if I have a second family in Debbine, Blat and Arid,"" she added of the mostly Shiite villages in the area.

Wyszomirska said that wearing the veil was ""a gesture from the heart -- it was not imposed on me.""

Her superior welcomed the idea that she wear veil during the holy month.

""He also suggested to me that I explain Ramadan customs to the other soldiers so they can respect the traditions and refrain from eating and drinking in public during fasting"" between dawn and dusk, she said.

Another woman peacekeeper in the Polish contingent, a 36-year-old, said she thought ""wearing the veil was a smart move, because it brought us closer to the residents,"" but also added that she would not do the same herself.

""It would change my look completely, and that's not something I want.""

Some of the villagers were slightly taken aback by the sight of the fatigues-clad Wyszomirska wearing a veil.

""I was surprised to see Sylvia wearing the headscarf, because I know she's not a Muslim,"" said Zahraa Hijazi, a veiled student from the village of Debbine.

""But in any case nuns wear veils even though they are Christian,"" she added.

Debbine mayor Mohammed Sherif Ibrahim agreed that many of his constituents were surprised by Wyszomirska's decision to wear the veil ""because it is out of the ordinary"".

""But it is also a nice gesture that breaks down barriers between UNIFIL and the local people,"" he said.

Europa już poświęciła Gruzję? Niemieckie Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych sprzeciwia się nałożeniu na Rosję jakichkolwiek sankcji

Europa już poświęciła Gruzję? Niemieckie Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych sprzeciwia się nałożeniu na Rosję jakichkolwiek sankcji


Nasz Dziennik, 2008-09-01
Niemieckie Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych sprzeciwia się nałożeniu na Rosję jakichkolwiek sankcji i opowiada się za natychmiastowym podjęciem dialogu z tym krajem. Niemieckie społeczeństwo boi się zemsty Moskwy na Europie, a tutejsze media prezentują w większości rosyjski punkt widzenia. Również Francuzi i Brytyjczycy są przeciwni wprowadzeniu jakichkolwiek obostrzeń w stosunkach z Rosją. Wszystko wskazuje na to, iż rezultaty dzisiejszego szczytu są przesądzone.

W sobotniej rozmowie telefonicznej z rosyjskim ministrem spraw zagranicznych Siergiejem Ławrowem szef niemieckiej dyplomacji Frank Walter Steinmeier (SPD) stwierdził, że należy przerwać spiralę konfliktu na Kaukazie. Obydwaj ministrowie omówili także kwestię uczestnictwa przedstawicieli Unii Europejskiej w misji obserwacyjnej w strefach bezpieczeństwa wokół Osetii Południowej i Abchazji.
Steinmeier dodał w niedzielę w jednym z wywiadów, że Unia Europejska powinna być roztropna w podejmowaniu decyzji, gdyż tylko w ten sposób będzie można powrócić do rozsądku i odpowiedzialności.
Niemieckie media, ostrzegając przed eskalacją konfliktu i przed zemstą Moskwy, znacznie złagodziły swoje i tak cały czas liberalne stanowisko w stosunku do Rosji. Coraz częściej publikowane są przychylne Moskwie komentarze politologów i publicystów. W telewizji wypowiadają się prorosyjscy eksperci, a nawet sam premier Władimir Putin.
Pojawiają się kontrolowane przecieki do prasy: według nieoficjalnych informacji "Der Spiegel" Gruzja już od dawna intensywnie przygotowywała się do wojskowej operacji w Osetii Południowej. Zdaniem niemieckiego tygodnika, istnieje także możliwość, że Gruzini dopuszczali się zbrodni wojennych.
Słowa te są wręcz powtórzeniem wypowiedzi prezydenta Miedwiediewa, który w jednym z telewizyjnych wywiadów stwierdził, że wkroczenie wojsk rosyjskich na teren Osetii Płd. i Abchazji miało zapobiec ludobójstwu. W tej samej rozmowie szef Kremla dodał, że Moskwa nie będzie dążyć do konfrontacji militarnej i nie zamierza się izolować. Zdanie to podziela premier Putin, który wyraził nadzieję, że obecne działania jego kraju nie doprowadzą do ochłodzenia stosunków z innymi państwami. Stwierdził, że ma podstawy tak sądzić, gdyż jego zdaniem obecne postępowanie Rosji jest absolutnie moralne i zgodne z prawem międzynarodowym.

Jednoznacznie za Rosją
Również Brytyjczycy wyrażają niechęć wobec planów wprowadzenia sankcji na Rosję. Premier Wielkiej Brytanii Gordon Brown stwierdził, że NATO i Unia Europejska muszą ponownie ocenić swoje relacje z Kremlem w celu zapobieżenia dalszej "rosyjskiej agresji". W sobotę Gordon Brown odbył rozmowę telefoniczną z prezydentem Rosji Dmitrijem Medwiediewem. Jej tematem było zmniejszenie napięcia między Rosją a państwami Wspólnoty.
Pragnący zachować anonimowość przedstawiciel brytyjskiego rządu powiedział w rozmowie z "Sunday Telegraph", iż tego typu posunięcia trudno byłoby wprowadzić w życie bez wydania ogólnego zakazu, który zaszkodziłby nie tylko rosyjskim obywatelom, ale przede wszystkim rosnącym obrotom handlowym między Wielką Brytanią a Rosją.
Także prezydent Francji Nicolas Sarkozy nie uważa za konieczne objęcie restrykcjami rosyjskiego partnera. - Na pewno nie wybiła godzina sankcji - stwierdził, wpisując się tym samym w ugodową postawę pozostałych znaczących krajów Europy. Wszystko wskazuje na to, iż przewodnicząc dzisiejszemu posiedzeniu Rady Europejskiej w Brukseli, prezydent Francji zadowoliłby się jedynie oświadczeniem, że układ o zawieszeniu broni będzie respektowany i że zarówno Moskwa, jak i Tbilisi muszą go w całości przestrzegać. Dla Paryża obecny czas jest "fazą zdecydowanego dialogu z Rosją".
Krytykowane przez opozycję stanowisko prezydenta Francji wydają się dzielić niektórzy francuscy komentatorzy, zdaniem których "Europa w swojej grze ma bardzo mało kart, by przeciwstawić się rosyjskiemu imperializmowi". Posiada za to silne kontakty handlowe z Rosją i nie należy się spodziewać, iż narazi je w imię jakichkolwiek ideałów.

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Georgia - wystąpienie Kaczyńskiego w Tbilisi - 12.08.2008.

to Georgians in Polish Service

Solidarni z Gruzją

Poland and Polish People for Georgia Freedom

Poland and Polish People for Georgia Freedom



WARSAW — The bustling streets of downtown Warsaw, increasingly filled with gleaming new automobiles and lined with Western boutique stores, seem a world away from downtown Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, where jittery residents this month faced the once inconceivable threat of Russian tanks advancing down Rustaveli Avenue in the center of the city.


Poland’s sense of security did not occur overnight. It was a result of nearly two decades of assiduous work to burrow as deeply into Western institutions as possible, leaving behind the Russian sphere and taking what leaders in this largely Roman Catholic country had long argued was its natural place in the West.


Times Topics: Missiles and Missile Defense SystemsAlso setting it apart is the lack of a sizable Russian minority, which so worries officials in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. Of Poland’s 38.5 million people, 97 percent are ethnically Polish.

In signing the deal on Wednesday to allow American missiles to be based within its borders, Poland is being true to both its tortured past and its present as a new European power. It is allowing the missiles, but on its own terms: the deal says that the United States will also contribute a Patriot missile battery that will be operated by American troops for the time being, binding Poland and the United States in a way that increases both the risk and the cost of confrontation with a newly emboldened Russia.

Poland is not just relying on allies like the United States for its defense. The country is in the process of revamping its military, ending conscription and modernizing its professional army. Among the former Communist nations now integrated into NATO and the European Union, Poland has grown into the role of outspoken advocate for countries like Ukraine and Georgia that are still in Russia’s orbit.

“Poland will be a normal European country when it has normal, democratic, free-market countries on both sides of its border,” said Mr. Sikorski, the foreign minister, adding, “and that includes Russia, by the way.”

In many ways, this assertive country, aided by Western allies and institutions, is a model of what can be achieved with Western support, but also of exactly what Russia does not want Ukraine and Georgia becoming on its southern flank.

Public support for the missile deal was far from universal on the streets of Warsaw. Some residents said the threat was being hyped by leaders for political gain, and others maintained that any steps that might provoke Russia were a mistake.

“It’s the dumbest thing we could have done,” said Slawomir Janak, 72, a retiree. “This decision is going to have its repercussions on Poland for a long time. It might even lead to the third world war.”

But most said it was a necessary step.

“If the Western nations don’t defend such a strategic target as the pipelines in Georgia, why should they defend Poland, which is less strategic?” said Szymon Chlebowski, 22, a student from Gdansk out for a stroll down Warsaw’s grand boulevard, Krakowskie Przedmiescie. “In the perspective of five years, I see a real threat for Poland, starting in the Baltic nations, north to south first, and then Poland, with the same lack of reaction by Western nations.”

“As in the Second World War,” said Joanna Skicka, 22, who was with him. “The story will repeat itself.”

Mr. Chlebowski said he and his friends had started discussing where they would go if Poland were attacked. In a sign of Poland’s orientation to the West, they said they planned to escape to Italy or Spain.
Times Topics: Missiles and Missile Defense SystemsBut the events in the Caucasus, and threats of an attack by a Russian general after the announcement of a deal to place an American missile defense base on Polish soil, have cast a pall of doubt over this country, which, flush and confident, has taken its place in the West, specifically on the side of America, as an ally rather than as a vassal.

As the United States and Poland formally signed the missile defense agreement on Wednesday, over vociferous objections from Moscow, polls in the daily newspaper Dziennik showed public opinion swinging sharply in the last month, from opposition to the missile base to support.

“Before the Georgia invasion, I was against the installation of the missile shield in Poland,” said Julian Damentko, 26, a student out for a walk in Saski Park here earlier this week. “But now, after the events there, I feel threatened from the East, and I don’t regret the decision.”

Poland, where the Solidarity trade union hammered the first cracks into the old Soviet bloc, has been feeling its strength as a leader of the New Europe of former Soviet-sphere states. But since the Georgia crisis, this largest of post-Communist European Union members has moved to cement its relationship to action-oriented America and not just the tentative bureaucracies of Europe and NATO.

The Russian invasion reminded Poles once again how quickly and dangerously Eastern Europe can divide. Poland is struggling to show that it will not fall behind the faint old lines of the cold war, which may have seemed foggily forgotten in the West since the Berlin Wall fell but are remembered all too well here.

On newsstands, the cover of the mainstream, right-leaning weekly magazine Wprost features an illustration of Vladimir V. Putin, Russia’s prime minister, with an instantly recognizable little mustache and sweep of hair across the forehead that make the headline, “Adolf Putin,” redundant. The Polish edition of Newsweek shows the outspoken and at times impolitic Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, in the pilot’s seat of an airplane cockpit under the headline, “You have to be tough with Russia.”

Radek Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister and the government’s point man on missile defense, said in an interview this week, “Parchments and treaties are all very well, but we have a history in Poland of fighting alone and being left to our own devices by our allies.”

It is not a cold war mindset that drives Poland, Mr. Sikorski said, but one that harks all the way back to World War II, when, despite alliances with Britain and France, Poland fought Nazi Germany alone, and lost.

It was “the defining moment for us in the 20th century,” Mr. Sikorski said. “Then we were stabbed in the back by the Soviet Union, and that determined our fate for 50 years.”

As a result, Poland’s foreign policy is stamped by mistrust not only for Russia’s ambitions but also for hollow assurances from its own allies. Georgia’s lonely fight against an overwhelming Russian military served as an object lesson — a refresher that people here said no one needed — on the limits of waiting for help from friends.

“We’re determined this time around to have alliances backed by realities, backed by capabilities,” said Mr. Sikorski, pointing out that all Poland has now in terms of NATO infrastructure is one unfinished conference center.

This kind of strategic thinking was supposed to be on the way out. It was just last December when Poles celebrated the removal of all border checkpoints with Germany and other European neighbors, a powerful symbol of the country’s full membership in the Western club.

The economy has been churning out new jobs and higher wages, allowing Poles to enjoy a standard of living that, though not up to French or German standards yet, is far beyond what everyday people could have imagined in Communist times.

In Warsaw, there remains a sense of remove, if no longer complete security.

“There is a certain climate of safety, that we are already long admitted in the Atlantic alliance, that we proved to be a good member, a good ally,” said Marek Ostrowski, the foreign editor of Polityka, a mainstream weekly news magazine. He said there was a feeling among Poles that “the summer is nice and finally people don’t feel threatened.”
Letter from Frank J. Spula, the President of the Polish American Congress regarding Russia's Threats to Poland


August 18, 2008

Dear President Bush:

As President of the Polish American Congress I am writing to offer my
support for you in the event the need arises for you to support Poland
concerning a statement made last week by a top Russian general, shortly
after he learned of the completion of the United States – Poland agreement
of last Thursday for the deployment in Poland of a missile interceptor base
as part of a defensive system designed for blocking attacks by rogue
nations.

On Friday, August 8, 2008 Deputy Chief of Staff, Russian General Anatoly
Nogovitsyn stated: “Poland, by deploying (the system) is exposing itself to
a strike – 100 percent”. This remark is abhorrent to Poles and Polish
Americans. It connotes the image of past Czarist and Soviet regimes which
promoted invasion, murder, fear, Siberian hard-labor camps, and
war-terrorism which people living in contiguous states from the Baltic to
the Danube and thence to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea fought against for
centuries. It is apparent that history has a tendency to repeat itself when
it comes to the Russian Federation of our 21st century.

Poland has always been a friend of the United States, dating its friendship
to the Revolutionary War, when courageous Polish men of principle and honor
such as Generals Thaddeus Kosciusko and Casimir Pulaski heroically defended
our emerging democracy against British imperialism.

Consequently, it is the hope and expectation of Polish Americans that the
United States will not only sustain its full political and diplomatic
influence for building a world-wide consensus for condemning Russia’s
unprincipled inordinate attack on Georgia, and equally as well for
condemning Russia’s reckless and menacing threat to attack and destroy
Poland, but also if necessary, to deploy American military forces if needed,
to protect the freedom and democracy that Poland has fought so long to
establish and retain.

On behalf of the Polish American Congress representing more than ten million
Americans of Polish descent, I want you to know that I sincerely appreciate
your efforts relating to these current developments and thank you for your
support of Poland, one of America’s most loyal and trusted allies and
friends.

Respectfully,

Frank J. Spula
President

Polish American Congress
1612 K Street, N.W. Suite 410
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Lech Kaczyński - President of the Republic of Poland help to Georgia.

Lech Kaczyński - President of the Republic of Poland help to Georgia.
Tribute to Georgians : " For your freedom and ours "












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Lech Kaczyński - President of the Republic of Poland




Born in Warsaw in 1949. Studied law at Warsaw University. In 1971, he moved to Sopot to work as a scholar at the University of Gdańsk. In 1980 he took a doctor’s degree in labor law, and in 1990 he was awarded a post-doctoral degree.

In 1977, he began to work for the Interventions Office of the Worker Defense Committee. A year later be became involved in the activity of Independent Trade Unions. In August 1980 he was nominated as an adviser of the Gdańsk Inter-plant Strike Committee. He was also a delegate to the First National Congress of the „Solidarność” Trade Union. Interned during the martial law. When released from internment, he returned to trade union activities. He was a member of the underground Solidarity authorities.

In December 1988, became a member of the Civic Committee with Lech Wałęsa. He took part in the Round Table Talks in the team focused on trade union pluralism. In 1990, he was nominated as the Union’s first deputy chairman involved in the running of the Solidarity Trade Union. He was elected senator in the June 1989 election, and two years later a parliamentary deputy representing the Center Civic Alliance Party. In 1991, he was appointed as the head of the National Security Office at the President’s Chancellery. A year later, in1992, he was nominated as the president of the Supreme Chamber of Control (NIK) and he continued to hold that office until 1995.

In June 2000, Lech Kaczyński was nominated as the Minister of Justice by Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. He soon became the most popular member of the cabinet.

In April 2001, he was elected as the head the National Committee of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) to be elected the party’s president in spring 2001. After the September 2001 parliamentary election he returned to the parliament as the party’s deputy. In autumn 2002 he was elected Warsaw’s mayor with a big advantage over his opponents. He started his term in office by declaring a war against corruption – the so-called „Warsaw connections” - and by restoring law and order. In March 2005 he officially declared his intention to run as a presidential candidate.

Elected President of the Republic of Poland on October 23, he assumed the office on December 23, 2005 by taking an oath before the National Assembly.

Lech Kaczyński’s wife, Maria, is an economist. His daughter Marta graduated from the Department of Law at Gdańsk University. She is married to Piotr, and in 2003 she gave birth to her daughter, Ewa.
Mr. and Mrs. Kaczyński are fond of animals. They have two dogs and two cats.
Vilayat Guliyev: “Cooperation with Poland opens up opportunities for Azerbaijan to establish closer partnership with such international organizations as UN, EU and NATO”

Maria Kaczyńska, wife of the President of the Republic of Poland, comes from a patriotic Polish family from the Vilnius region in Lithuania. Her mother, Lidia Mackiewicz, was a teacher; her father, Czesław Mackiewicz, was a specialist in forestry. The family settled within the present Polish borders after the Second World War. During the war her father was taking part in guerrilla warfare against the German forces occupying the Vilnius region; one of his brothers fought at Monte Cassino in Italy as a soldier of the Polish Corps of General Władysław Anders. The second brother, an officer of the Polish Army, was killed at Katyń Forest.

Maria Kaczyńska attended primary and secondary schools in Rabka Zdrój in southern Poland. She graduated from the Department of Maritime Transport of the Higher School of Economics (now the University of Gdańsk) in Sopot on the Baltic coast. After receiving her diploma she worked at the Maritime Institute in Gdańsk, where she conducted research into the developmental perspectives of maritime freight markets in the Far East.

In 1978 she married Lech Kaczyński, at that time an assistant research fellow at the Faculty of Law of Gdańsk University, an activist of the democratic anti-Communist opposition in Poland. In June 1980 she gave birth to her daughter, Marta, and shortly afterwards, in August 1980, widespread labour strikes broke out in Gdańsk and other Polish cities; the "Solidarity" trade union movement was established. When the Communist authorities cracked down on "Solidarity" and introduced martial law in Poland in 1981, her husband was interned for almost a year; after his release he was active in the underground "Solidarity" movement. At that time Maria Kaczyńska was on maternity leave; finally she decided not to return to work at the Maritime Institute. She engaged in tutoring and worked as a freelance translator from English and French; at the same time she was bringing up her daughter and helping her husband in his fight against the Communist regime in Poland.

After the fall of the Communist regime, during the period of political transformation of the country, when her husband held several important public offices, Maria Kaczyńska always supported charitable and cultural initiatives, especially when Lech Kaczyński was Mayor of Warsaw in 2002-2005. When she became the First Lady of Poland in 2005, her public activities took on a new dimension. As First Lady she co-operates with Polish and foreign non-governmental organizations focusing on social, medical and humanitarian issues. She participates in charity projects, using her position to help impoverished and handicapped persons, notably children with health problems and disabilities. She supports initiatives enriching Polish cultural life, acting in concert with artistic and intellectual circles. She is committed to promote her country abroad and to strengthen the positive image of democratic Poland in the world. She sometimes acts as Special Envoy of the President, representing her husband at official functions in various countries. She is involved in the international promotion of Polish cultural heritage.

Maria Kaczyńska takes an interest in literature and art; she loves music, ballet and the theatre. She likes travelling, which gives her an opportunity to gain an insight into the lives and traditions of other countries. She values both family life and social life. She enjoys spending her time with her three-year-old granddaughter Ewa. She speaks English and French and possesses some knowledge of Spanish and Russian.

The First Lady admits to having a strong personality. Her pleasant manner, cheerfulness and a fine sense of humour have won her a lot of friends; she is always open to new ideas. In matters of dress and personal adornments she prefers restrained, classical style.

Both the President and the First Lady love animals; they own two dogs and two cats.

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[ 01 Aug 2008 16:12 ]
President of Poland will also participate in the 4th Energy Summit in Baku in November this year

Baku. Lachin Sultanova – APA. Azerbaijan’s ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Poland Vilayat Guliyev interviewed by APA

-Foreign Minister of Poland called Azerbaijan one of the ten priority countries. This is perhaps in terms of energy security of Poland. And what does cooperation with Poland promises Azerbaijan?

-Azerbaijan is in the focus of attention of the European Union with its important geostrategic position, rich natural resources, leading position in the region and dynamic development. It is undeniable that Poland is one of EU members, which take especially great interest in our country. It was underlined several times that Azerbaijan-Poland relations rose to the stage of strategic partnership both on the level of president and foreign minister and political-economic relations with Azerbaijan were priority for Poland. Of course, both energy security of Europe and Azerbaijan’s becoming an important transit country play important role here. It should also be mentioned that Azerbaijan, which already has broad financial opportunities, can implement important economic projects along with Poland and make investments in the country’s economy in the near future. In this respect it is possible to predict that interest of Poland and other countries of Eastern European bloc in Azerbaijan will increase gradually. Cooperation with Poland opens up opportunities for Azerbaijan to establish closer partnership with such international organizations as UN, EU and NATO. The support for the right position of our country and adoption of the statement condemning Armenia’s aggressive policy in the UN discussions on Nagorno Karabakh in March this year was possible thanks to the active position of such EU members as Poland, Romania and Baltic states. In May this year Poland and Sweden offered to simplify visa regime and strengthen the relations with such post-Soviet countries as Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. Another important indicator is the expansion of Poland’s relations with GUAM. Polish President Lech Kaczyński’s statement during the bilateral meetings in Paris, within the framework of EU-Mediterranean countries summit supporting Azerbaijan’s position may be assessed as another answer to the question what Poland can do for our country. I think that there is enough unused potential both in political and economic spheres and the atmosphere of mutual confidence, sincere and business relations between the presidents of the two countries will raise Azerbaijan-Poland relations to a higher level.

-In the first half of 2008 Azerbaijan-Poland relations were very dynamic in terms of high-level mutual visits. Will this rate continue till the end of the year?

In February this year President Ilham Aliyev paid the second official visit to Poland within the past three years. The heads of states had productive talks, important documents were signed during the visit. In April-June Azerbaijan’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs, National Security and Interior Affairs visited Poland. Chairman of Polish Senate participated in the 90th jubilee of Azerbaijani Parliament, First Lady of Poland came to Baku to attend the international conference “The role of women in cross-cultural dialogue” in June. The third meeting of Azerbaijan-Poland intergovernmental economic commission is planned to take place in September-October in Warsaw. Polish president will also attend the 4th Energy Summit in Baku in November. You see both sides are interested in preserving tempo and dynamics of the relations.


-On what stage is the establishment of Sarmatiya-2 Company? Is it possible to say that the energy summit planned to be held in Baku in November will make contributions to this issue?

-As these issues are still on the stage of preparation, I would not like to make predictions that can surpass the developments and opinions of experts. Suffice it to say that after the 1st Energy Summit chaired by Azerbaijani President in Krakow in May 2007 the interest in the idea of delivering Caspian’s energy resources to Europe by alternative ways aroused and the European Union has taken interest in this project more seriously. The increase of the number of participants in the following summits is the display of this interest. During Ukrainian President’s visit to Baku Azerbaijan once more demonstrated that its position on the idea of new oil pipeline is unchangeable. Taking all this into account we can say that a number of important decisions will be made during Baku summit in November.

-Poland has held two national exhibitions in Baku up to now. How have these exhibitions influenced the bilateral economic relations?

-Undoubtedly, each exhibition is the important indicator of a country’s economic opportunities and potential. On the other hand, such exhibitions offer opportunities to the producers and exporters to establish closer and direct relations. In this respect, Polish exhibitions held in Baku have made influence on the economic cooperation and increase of trade turnover between the two countries. I regret that our consumers have not paid enough attention to Poland’s food industry meeting high ecological requirements or light industry with high-quality and relatively cheap products. Besides, Azerbaijan is more known in Poland as a country of oil and gas and this casts shadow on the opportunities of cooperation in other spheres. Transport-related problems also pose some obstacles in the intensive implementation of economic relations.

-Does Azerbaijan also plan to hold similar exhibitions demonstrating its economic opportunities in Poland?

The next meeting of Azerbaijan-Poland Intergovernmental Commission will be held in Warsaw in October-September of the current year. Within the framework of that event, Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Economic Development plans to demonstrate an exhibition reflecting the development of various spheres of the country’s economy over the last couple of years. Besides, Poland attaches great significance to the activity of this commission. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Pavlak has recently been appointed the chairman of the joint economic commission.

-What projects are implemented in the humanitarian field? Are you satisfied with the research and development works carried out in Polish archives in regard to Azerbaijan at the beginning of the twentieth century?

Considerable progresses have been made in this field since the Embassy was opened in Poland. Close relations have been established between Baku Slavic University and Warsaw and Poznan universities. Rector of Baku Slavic University, Professor Kamal Abdulla has twice been to Poland in this respect. The Polish delegation led by Rector of Warsaw University visited Baku in May, conducted meetings at Baku Slavic University and other higher institutions and discussed the ways of mutual cooperation. Azerbaijani language is taught at Warsaw University at present. Research and development works in Polish archives in regard to Azerbaijan at the beginning of the twentieth century are possible to be carried out individually. We also do our best to help our historians and philologists in this work within the bounds of possibility. For instance, our Embassy had considerable services in finding out Nasiman Yagublu’s monography devoted to Azerbaijan-Poland relations in twenties-thirties of the last century. We are also going to publish M. A. Rasulzadeh’s book “Azerbaijan in struggle for independence” translated into Polish in Warsaw in 1938. We will make every possible endeavor to continue this work henceforth.

-What historical points have been reflected in the book dedicated to Azerbaijan People’s Republic published by you?

My book entitled “Azerbaijan in Paris Peace Conference” have been published in Baku this year. In April, 1919, the Azerbaijani delegation led by the Parliament’s Chairman A. Topchubashov paid a visit to Paris and published a number of booklets and brochures in English and French for the purpose of closely introducing their state to the European community and representatives of political circles. I’ve translated one of those books from English and published. I’ve always interested in the history of our first republic and I continue my research and development works in Polish archives in my spare times.

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