The Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Radosław Sikorski began his official visit to Canada with a tour of the Canadian War Museum, last Sunday. Next, he held a meeting with the Polish veterans associated in the Association of the Polish Combatants’ in Canada.
Minister Sikorski thanked the veterans for their attendance in the meeting and for having an opportunity to hold the conversation. The Minister wholeheartedly expressed his respect and appreciation for the combatants’ efforts made for keeping-up relations with the mother country. Mr. Sikorski, in his talks with the Canadian party, raised the important issue of restoring all the powers and privileges to the veterans of the Polish Resistance Movement in the World War II, the soldiers of the Polish Home Army.
Radosław Sikorski made a comment that the Polish effort in the World War II was not properly exposed in the exhibition of the Canadian War Museum which he had seen before the meeting. A brief note did not include any information about the German attack on Poland at the beginning of the World War II, the participation of the Poles in the Allies Armed Forces, the Polish-Canadian brotherhood in the battles to liberate Europe. The Minister made a promise to raise this issue in his talks with Minister MacKay. In the course of the meeting, the veterans asked Mr. Sikorski about the current issues in Poland, Polish ISAF mission in Afghanistan and about the planned deployment of the US missile defence shield.
In the evening Minister Radosław Sikorski held a conversation with the Minister of National Defence, Mr McKay.
