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Polish president on visit to Lithuania

17.11.2020 08:10
Polish President Andrzej Duda is on Tuesday starting a two-day visit to Lithuania during which he is expected to discuss regional security and cooperation, and tensions in the two countries’ shared neighbour Belarus.
President Andrzej Duda.
President Andrzej Duda. Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak

Duda is to hold talks with his Lithuanian counterpart Gitanas Nauseda, with Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and with Ingrida Simonyte, who is forming a new government in Vilnius after winning a recent election.

Duda and Nauseda are to set up a special council of the two presidents, an advisory body which the leaders will head in turn.

Duda is also scheduled to deliver an address in the Lithuanian parliament.

During the visit, the Polish and Lithuanian presidents will launch a virtual business forum.

Duda will also visit a mausoleum in which the heart of Marshal Józef Piłsudski, one of the architects of Polish independence, is buried.

At the end of his two-day visit, on which he is being accompanied by his wife, Duda is scheduled to meet representatives of the Polish community in Lithuania.

Poland and Lithuania in September signed a strategic partnership declaration and their government ministers held talks officially known as intergovernmental consultations.

It was the first such event between the two countries since 1989.

(pk)

Source: IAR