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POLISH President Andrzej Duda welcomed his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier with full military honours on his arrival in Warsaw on Thursday.
Steinmeier’s visit marks 30 years since the neighbouring countries signed a cooperation treaty.
The visit has been described as “a sign of reaching out and looking forward together, in spite of difficulties in relations between the two governments.”
Following talks with Duda, the German president was to lay a wreath at the grave of the Unknown Soldier.
A subsequent discussion with young people from both countries was also planned.
Germany and Poland signed a treaty of good neighbourly relations on June 17, 1991 at the end of the Cold War.
The inviolability of the borders drawn at the end of World War II is among its provisions.
Current points of conflict include the Nord Stream two gas pipeline linking Germany directly with Russia, which was nearing completion.
Shortly before the visit, an adviser to Duda urged the construction of a planned memorial in Berlin to Polish victims of the Nazi dictatorship.
Poland’s ruling PiS had repeatedly called for reparations for the damage caused during the war.
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– June 17, 2021 @ 17:33 GMT |
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