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MAY 2007 |
Volume II Issue 5 |
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May 2007 |
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Ambassador Victor Ashe |
President and Mrs. Bush will be coming
to Poland on June 8 to visit President and
Mrs. Kaczynski at Poland's presidential
retreat in Jurata on the Baltic Sea. This
will be the third visit President Bush has
made to Poland during the six and a half
years he has served as President of the
United States. President Kaczynski has accepted
President Bush’s invitation to visit the
White House on July 16. This will be President
Kaczynski’s second visit to the White House
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April was incredibly active as missile
defense highlighted the month's activities.
U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates;
Director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency,
General Henry A. Obering; and U.S. Under
Secretary of Defense for Policy, Ambassador
Eric S. Edelman; and Assistant Secretary
of State for European Affairs, Daniel Fried,
all visited to discuss the U.S. missile
defense proposal with Polish government
officials and parliamentarians.
The U.S. Consul General in Krakow, Anne
Hall, and I, participated in April in the
2007 March of the Living at the former Nazi
death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. While
in Krakow, Consul General Hall also hosted
Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz and me for breakfast.
Ms. Hall and I also traveled through southeastern
Poland where we visited the PZL Mielec and
Debica factories, two sites of sizable American
investment.
Next week, U.S. Mayors Joseph Riley of
Charleston, SC; Dan Malloy of Stamford,
CT; John Robert Smith of Meridian, MS; together
with J. Thomas Cochran, Executive Director
of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, will visit
Warsaw to meet with Polish mayors to discuss
city design issues.
Also in May, we are hosting visits by the
New York Philharmonic led by Maestro Lorin
Maazel, the Commander of the American Legion,
Paul Morin, the Executive Director of the
Police Executive Research Forum, Chuck Wexler,
and retired Washington, DC Police Chief
Charles Ramsey who will be here to discuss
community policing. Carl Anderson who leads
the Knights of Columbus will visit too.
Bill Viola, a world-renowned pioneer in
video art, whose major solo exhibit at the
Zacheta National Gallery of Art I will officially
open on May 11, will also visit. American
mystery writer Steve Berry will be here
for events in Warsaw and Krakow including
book signing and an “America
Presents” program at the Embassy on
May 10. And, University of Tennessee pianist
David Northington will perform a concert
at Warsaw’s Lazienki Park on May 20. For
information on how to participate in these
and other Embassy-sponsored events, please
visit the Embassy’s website.
Joan and I will host a reception honoring
American businesses in Poland, and a U.S.
Armed Forces Day reception at the end of
May that will salute Polish World War II
veterans.
Sincerely yours,
Victor Ashe
U.S. Ambassador to Poland |
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Embassy News |
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President George W. Bush |
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President Bush to Visit Poland on June 8
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White House announced that President
Bush has accepted President Lech Kaczynski's
invitation to visit Poland on June 8
and he and Mrs. Bush look forward to
being in Jurata for the visit. This
will be the third visit President Bush
has made to Poland during the six and
a half years he has served as President
of the United States.
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President George W. Bush welcomed
President Lech Kaczynski to
the White House on February
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President
Bush to Welcome President Kaczynski
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President
Bush will welcome President Lech Kaczynski
of Poland to the White House on July
16, 2007. Under President Kaczynski's
leadership, Poland has been one of the
United States closest allies in advancing
and consolidating democracy in Europe
and around the globe. Poland is a leading
strategic partner in the war on terror,
supporting stability and freedom in
Iraq and Afghanistan. To protect Europe
and the United States from emerging
threats, Poland has also expressed its
interest in contributing to a missile
defense system. The two leaders look
forward to discussing these and other
regional and international issues.
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From left:
U.S. Ambassador Victor Ashe,
Secretary Robert Gates and Polish
Minister of Defense Aleksander
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Visits Poland |
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Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates,
visited Poland April 24-25. Secretary
Gates met with Polish President Lech
Kaczynski, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski,
Minister of Defense Aleksander Szczyglo,
Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Fotyga
and several Polish parliamentarians
to discuss U.S.-Polish cooperation in
Iraq and Afghanistan and the U.S. proposal
to place missile defense assets in Poland.
“Poland – through its courage, its commitment
to common values, and, yes, its suffering
at the hands of Nazis and Communists
– taught us that, in the end, freedom
is indivisible. Poland taught us that
the security of nations, and perhaps
of all free nations, cannot be maintained
in isolation,” said Secretary Gates.
(photo gallery: part
I, part
II, part
III)
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General Henry A. Obering, Director
of the MDA, and U.S. Under Secretary
of Defense, Eric S. Edelman |
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U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director
and Under Secretary of Defense Visit
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General Henry A. Obering, Director of
the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, and
U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for
Policy, Ambassador Eric S. Edelman,
visited Poland April 17-18. General
Obering and Ambassador Edelman met with
Polish government officials, parliamentarians,
security experts, and members of the
media to discuss the U.S. proposal to
place missile defense assets in Poland.
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Ambassador Ashe with students
at Gimnazjum Number 1 in Jozefow,
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Ambassador Ashe Celebrates Earth Day
by Honoring GLOBE Program |
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In celebration of Earth
Day, U.S. Ambassador to Poland,
Victor Ashe, participated in two events
to honor the 10th anniversary of the
Global
Learning and Observations to Benefit
the Environment Program (GLOBE)
in Poland. GLOBE promotes and supports
students, teachers, and scientists to
collaborate on inquiry-based investigations
of the environment in partnership with
the National Science Foundation and
the NASA Earth System Science Projects.
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Ambassador Ashe at the 2007
March of the Living |
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Ambassador Ashe and Consul General Hall
Participate in March of the Living |
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On April 16, U.S. Ambassador to Poland,
Victor Ashe, and U.S. Consul General
in Krakow, Anne Hall, joined thousands
of people from around the world in the
annual March of the Living as they walked
the three-kilometer distance separating
the former Nazi death camps of Auschwitz
and Birkenau located in southern Poland.
The March took place on Holocaust Remembrance
Day established in memory of the six
million Jews who perished during World
War II.
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Ashe checking the product at
the Goodyear Debica plant with
Jeff Smith, Goodyear Debica
and Consul General Anne Hall
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Ambassador Ashe and Consul General Hall
Visit Southeastern Poland |
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U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Victor Ashe,
and U.S. Consul General in Krakow, Anne
Hall, visited the Polish cities of Mielec,
Dębica, Zawada, Ropczyce, Iwierzyce
and Rzeszów in southeastern Poland April
18-19. Ambassador Ashe and Consul General
Hall met with Janusz Chodorowski, Mayor
of Mielec; Paweł Wolicki, Mayor of Dębica;
Bolesław Bujak, Mayor of Ropczyce; and
Jerzy Jakubiec, Mayor of Iwierzyce.
In Mielec, they visited the factory
of PZL Mielec, an aviation company recently
acquired by American aviation company
Sikorsky, a subsidiary of United Technologies.
In Dębica, they visited the factory
of Poland’s leading tire manufacturer,
Dębica, partly owned by American company
Goodyear Rubber & Tire.
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Ambassador Ashe and Consul General
Hall with Cardinal Stanislaw
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Ambassador Ashe and Consul General Hall
Meet with Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz
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U.S.
Ambassador to Poland, Victor Ashe, and
Krakow Consul General Anne Hall, met
with Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz during
the Ambassador's recent trip to Krakow
on April 16.
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Ambassador Ashe addresses the
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Ambassador Ashe Honors Polish Alumni
of U.S. Exchange Programs |
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On April 17, U.S. Ambassador to Poland,
Victor Ashe, and Mrs. Ashe, hosted a
reception for Polish alumni of U.S.
government exchange programs and launched
the new Alumni Association. Ambassador
Ashe welcomed over 300 guests to his
Residence who arrived from different
regions of Poland and represented many
different professional fields. The Ambassador
invited the alumni to join the new association
which he noted “seeks to continue your
exchange experience and help you to
develop personally and professionally.”
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U.S. to be “Lead Nation” for Poland’s 2007 International Defense Trade
Show in Kielce, Poland; September 3-6, 2007. For more information,
click here.
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WERSJA POLSKA
