Today's Poland is the most free, prosperous and safest ever since 17th century, envoy

 Mr. Piotr Opalinski

Islamabad: On 11th November we celebrate the National Independence Day of Poland, which commemorates the events of 1918 when Poland regained its independence after 123 years of partitions and foreign occupation. Today's Poland is the most free, prosperous and safest ever since the 17th century.

H. E. Mr. Piotr Opalinski - Ambassador of Poland

However, this year's celebrations fall at a difficult time globally. The whole world is struggling with the coronavirus pandemic, which completely changes our everyday lives. Any history of any nation has its heroes. Today our heroes are the doctors, nurses, emergency crews and the whole personnel of the health services. Their professionalism and devotion deserve the highest respect.

As Poland is the birthplace of Solidarity Movement it has now also become the beating heart of solidarity with other countries and peoples. It is our tradition to support the freedom of other nations. As some of our Pakistani Friends are aware, from 1948 onwards, right at the nascent state of Pakistan independence, a large group of Polish airmen, and also some navy officers, greatly contributed to the development of Pakistani Defence, Air Force and civil aviation. Today, we stay united in fighting against the spread of the pandemic with strong measures. And today, our friendship manifests itself also in the multifaceted cooperation and mutual support.

From my personal perspective, having served a total of 11 years in Islamabad – first six as deputy head of the mission and now five years as ambassador of Poland to Pakistan – I am very happy to see our two countries developing fast, both our economies having more to offer to each other, the trade exchange growing to the level of half billion Euro annually and also the direct investment being increased, especially by the Polish Oil & Gas Company (PGNiG), which operates in Pakistan for more than two decades now. It also gives me a real satisfaction to note the invigorated cultural, academic and people to people contacts. All this makes me see our future bright. Poland - Pakistan ki Dosti – Zindabad!

The write is ambassador of Poland to Pakistan 

courtesy. monthly Wszystko Co Najważniejsze (Poland)