| Przesyłam w załączeniu informację o wystąpieniu pana Andrzeja Jaroszyńskiego, Ambasadora RP w Australii, w Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) w Sydney, w najbliższy wtorek 31 maja 2011 r. o godz. 18.00.Serdecznie zachęcam zainteresowane osoby do udziału. Ponieważ wydarzenie organizowane jest przez AIIA na zwyczajowych zasadach, pobierana będzie opłata za wstęp w wysokości 15 AUD dla członków tej organizacji i 20 AUD dla osób niebędących członkami. Jednakże zgodnie z zapewnieniem Colina Chapmana, prezesa AIIA w Nowej Południowej Walii, wszyscy członkowie społeczności polskiej zostaną kurtuazyjnie potraktowani jak członkowie AIIA, to znaczy opłata dla nich wynosić będzie 15 AUD.
Daniel Gromann
Konsul Generalny
Australian Institute of International Affairs in Sydney
The event will start on : Tuesday, 31 May 2011 6:00 PM
And will end on : Tuesday, 31 May 2011 7:30 PM
Location: The Glover Cottages, Sydney - 124 Kent Street
THE COMING PRESIDENCY OF THE EU
On July 1, Poland takes up the presidency of the European
Union. In picking up the baton from France for the second half of this year, Polish president Bronisław Komorowski faces formidable challenges as the 27-nation bloc faces dissent within its ranks, a significant threat to the future of the
Eurozone with several of its members needing bail outs, and
concern over European foreign and migration policies, as the
NATO involvement in conflicts in Afghanistan and Libya
continue. There is also the issue of the proposed US antiballistic
missile system in Poland deemed needed to protect the
West from Iran.
Sandwiched between two old enemies, Germany and Russia,
Poland has to negotiate skillfully with both, while watching on
as Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dmitri Medvedev
draw closer.
Poland, along with former Warsaw Pact neighbours Hungary,
the Czech Republic and Slovakia, is so worried about its
medium term security that it is leading these countries to form a 'battle group' outside NATO and independent of it.
As a country of 38 million people, Poland has seen dramatic
change since the collapse of the Soviet Union more than two
decades ago, when the Warsaw Pact broke up and it became
an important member of the EU and of NATO. Poland and
Australia enjoy very good relations, not least because there is
a hard-working Polish community of 164,000 people in our
country, half of whom were born in Poland.
Meet HE Andrzej Jaroszynski, Ambassador of Poland
Mr Jaroszynski has been Polish Ambassador to Australia since
late 2008. Since joining the Polish foreign service in 1990, he
has served overseas in Chicago, Washington, as deputy head
of mission, and in Oslo, as ambassador to Norway.
Immediately before taking up his current position in Canberra,
he was director of the Department of the Americas in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw. A graduate from the
University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska, he held a number of
academic positions at the Catholic University of Lublin, before
joining the Polish diplomatic service. He has just returned from
Warsaw briefings on the Polish presidency.
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