President: Solidarity needed with Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova
Countries of Central and Eastern Europe which have enjoyed freedom for the past 25 years now have to show solidarity with those still fighting for their freedom: Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, President Bronislaw Komorowski underlined in Prague on Monday.
"I remember those days when we from Poland's Solidarity movement were so glad to see things moving ahead in Prague, the nation moving towards freedom," President Komorowski said at the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at Charles University, part of the Czech Republic's celebration of the Velvet Revolution's 25th anniversary.
Bronislaw Komorowski pointed out that when demonstrations were beginning in Prague, Poland already had "a non-communist government, but things were not safe. ... It is safe, wise and effective always to move towards freedom together," Poland's president added.
"There is one freedom ... the freedom of Poland, of Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Germans and all the enslaved nations in our part of Europe was the same freedom," Komorowski said.
That is why today, the president continued, "our solidarity of people who enjoy freedom is owed to those who are fighting for freedom. ... It is owed to those who want to follow the same freedom road towards the West - to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. They need solidarity from people of the free world, from us who remember life in a country without freedom."
On Monday evening President Bronisław Komorowski visited a graveyard of Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic.
At the graveyard of Vaclav Havel there was laid a wreath, on behalf the President of the Republic of Poland and the group of former activists of the Polish-Czech-Slovak Solidarity, with the inscription: ‘On the 25 Years of Freedom. Friends from Poland’.
Source: PAP, president.pl