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Poland celebrates 25 years of freedom

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Peter Gentle 04.06.2014 08:41
Delegations from 50 nations, including US president Barack Obama, are taking part in 25th anniversary celebrations, Wednesday, of the fall of communism after the 4 June 1989 elections.

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Barack Obama's 'Cadillac One' outside Presidential Palace in Warsaw: photo - PAP/Tomasz Gzell

Presidents of Poland, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia meet this morning with young people under the slogan '1989 – Generation of Freedom' before the main event at 11.30 in Castle Square in the Polish capital, where US president Barack Obama and Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski will give speeches on the transformations in the country following the landslide victory by Solidarity candidates in the 4 June elections 25 years ago.

Barack Obama, who arrived in Poland on Tuesday, will then fly to Brussels for a meeting of the G7.

President Komorowski will then give a speech to the National Assembly, which brings together members of Poland's upper and lower houses of parliament.

At 4 pm, President Komorowski and France's head of state Francois Hollande will be opening the "Solidarite France Pologne" exhibition and unveil a statue in honour of two-time Nobel Prize winning scientist Maria Curie-Sklodowska.

Celebrations will climax with a 25 Years of freedom galas at Warsaw's Grand Theatre. (pg)

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