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Polish, German FMs to meet near Auschwitz

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Grzegorz Siwicki 20.08.2018 07:55
The Polish and German foreign ministers were on Monday set to meet for talks near the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz.
Jacek CzaputowiczJacek CzaputowiczPolish foreign ministry MSZ (CC BY-NC 2.0)

During their meeting in the village of Harmęże in southern Poland, the two top diplomats were expected to discuss some of “the most important issues concerning Polish-German relations and the European agenda, including energy policy, the Multiannual Financial Framework negotiations, the future of the European Union after Brexit and transatlantic relations,” according to the Polish foreign ministry.

Poland’s Jacek Czaputowicz and Germany’s Heiko Maas were due to jointly visit a memorial centre for St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan monk who gave his life for another prisoner at Auschwitz in 1941, the PAP news agency has reported.

Prior to the meeting at Harmęże, the German delegation was scheduled to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in the town of Oswięcim, the Polish foreign ministry said on its website.

More than 1.1 million people perished at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during World War II, mostly European Jews, but also Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs and prisoners of other nationalities.

Some 2.1 million people visited the site of the former Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz in southern Poland in 2017.

While in Warsaw in March, Maas called Poland and Germany “irreplaceable neighbours and friends” despite “divergent views on various issues.”

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Source: PAP, msz.gov.pl

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