Founder of the Solidarity Labor Union, Nobel Peace Prize winner
and former Polish President Lech Wałęsa
hold hands with Anne
and Mitt Romney in Gdansk, Poland, July 30.
Walesa on Romney: 'We
are Alike' (Gazeta Wyborcza,
Poland)
"Mr. Romney
has a sense of humor; he's sociable, professes similar values, is very close to
his wife, and has five children. We are alike and are looking for similar
solutions. This meeting gave me an idea of what direction the U.S. would take
if Romney wins. But I'm not endorsing him."
Polish News Agency
Translated By Agnieszka Gosiewska
July 31, 2012
Poland
- Gazeta Wyborcza -
Original Article (Polish)
On Monday, Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for the
U.S. presidency, met with Prime Minister Donald Tusk and former President Lech Wałęsa.
Romney arrived in Poland at the invitation of
Lech Wałęsa. It has been widely
commented that the meeting was a sly dig directed at President Barack Obama,
whose meeting with Lech Wałęsa during his
visit last year never materialized. At the time, the former Solidarity leader
had hoped for a personal meeting with President Obama, not just one among a
group of other Polish politicians.
Posted by
Worldmeets.US
Romney’s visit to Poland began with a meeting with the head
of government [Prime Minister Donald Tusk]. Before entering the Town Hall in
Gdansk, the crowd acknowledged Romney, and the American politician took a few
minutes to chat with the locals.
But upon leaving his meeting with Prime Minister Tusk, Mr.
Romney was greeted by a group of citizens with shouts of, "Obama! Obama!"
In the crowd, one could also see banners such as, "Mitt Will Say Anything
to Get Elected."
Pro-Obama
Poles meet Mitt Romney in Gdansk, July 30.
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The meeting with Mr. Tusk took over an hour. Just before 5pm
in Artus
Court, the American politician began his meeting with Wałęsa.
This was the highlight of his visit to Poland, as it might appeal to American
voters.
Both Tusk and Wałęsa stressed
before meeting with Romney that they want to know Romney’s views on Europe and
Poland.
"It was a good meeting - over an hour-long," said Lech
Wałęsa. "Mr. Romney has a sense of
humor; he's sociable, professes similar values, is very close to his wife, and
has five children. We are alike and are looking for similar solutions. This
meeting gave me an idea of what direction the U.S. would take if Romney wins.
But I'm not endorsing him. It would be unseemly and inappropriate to interfere
in U.S. domestic affairs. He promised that if he wins, he will invite me for a
long conversation." The politicians didn't discuss visas or the missile
defense system, because, as the former president said, these topics "are
too complicated."
After leaving Artus Court, Romney
visited two important memorials in Gdansk. Accompanied by Gdansk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz and Museum
of the Second World War Director Paweł Machcewicz, he laid a wreath at Westerplatte,
where the first shots in defense of the homeland during World War II were fired.
He then returned to the center of Gdansk to lay flowers at the Monument
to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970. In the evening he flew to
Warsaw. On Tuesday morning in Belweder, Mr. Romney is
to meet President Bronisław Komorowski
and later with Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski. The likely Republican U.S. presidential nominee also
plans to deliver a speech entitled The
U.S.-Poland Relationship and the Values Of Liberty" at the University
of Warsaw. The U.S. politician also laid flowers at monuments to the Warsaw
uprising and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
During his foreign tour, in addition to Poland, Mitt Romney
also visited Great Britain and Israel.
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