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Dalai Lama wraps up his visit to Poland
12.12.2008 Polish Radio
Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama wraps up his visit to Poland today. He spent one eventful week in the country, visiting Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk and Wroclaw, participated in the 25th anniversary celebrations of Lech Walesa's Nobel Peace Prize, met privately with Poland's president Lech Kaczynski and talked to Polish parliamentarians. The visit was widely received as the reiteration of Poland's support to the cause of Free Tibet.
Dalai Lama: Poles Can Do a Lot for Tibet's Autonomy
2008-12-12 Gazeta Wyborcza
‚When we are born, each of us has the same potential of human love,’ the Tibetan spiritual leader told Polish deputies. And he stressed that Stalin, Hitler, or Saddam Hussein were once children too.
Honorary Citizen Meets Professor Kaczyński
2008-12-11 Gazeta Wyborcza
Though it took place at the Presidential Palace, the meeting between Lech Kaczyński and the 14th Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader in exile, was a private one.
EC President will come to honor Walesa
2008-12-03
Head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso has confirmed his presence at celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of Lech Walesa receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s December 2008 visit to Poland
1 December 2008, Office of Tibet, London
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is visiting the Republic of Poland from 5 to 12 December 2008, at invitations from the Lech Walesa Institute, the Jagiellonian University, the Mayor and City Council of Wroclaw, the Speaker of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, the Polish Parliamentary Group for Tibet, and the Mayor of the City of Warsaw. During the visit His Holiness will also meet with representatives of Buddhist groups in Poland, hold a special prayer meeting with Archbishop Golebiewski and nuns of the historic Carmelitan Convent, and meet with members of the Tibetan Community in Poland.
Lech Walesa's summit in Gdansk vs. EU-China summit in China
29 November 2008, The Polish Radio
Former president and leader of Solidarnos'c’ Lech Walesa has called „the height of insolence” China's decision to postpone a December summit with the EU after European politicians planned to meet the Dalai Lama at events celebrating the 25th anniversary of Lech Walesa's Nobel Peace Prize in Gdan'sk.
5,000 Poles to meet Dalai Lama
The Polish Radio, November 18, 2008
It is estimated that 5,000 Poles are to take part in the meeting with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, who is going to visit Poland's capital city of Warsaw on 11 December.
Letter from EP President Hans-Gert Pottering
Official reply on the letter to the President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pottering regarding Szymon Kolecki protest in Beijing.
Letter to Hans-Gert Pottering, President of European Parliament
24 August 2008
We are writing in regards to your statement made before the Beijing Olympics about solidarity actions with Tibetans during the Games. We would like to inform you that Polish weightlifter Szymon Kolecki made a visible sign of solidarity, as he had pledged to do before the Games. We hope you will express your support for his gesture, in accordance with your statement before the Games (“I would like to encourage the athletes, men and women, to look at things as they are, and not to turn away”). To our knowledge, he is the only athlete who made such a symbolic gesture.
Candles for Tibet
23 August 2008
24 August 2008. At night on the eve of the closing Olympic Games in Beijing, in over 30 countries and 20 Chinese Embassies and consulates at 9 pm Tibet supporters organized candlelight vigils.
