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President calls for Uprising Remembrance Day

31st July 2009

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President Lech Kaczynski has proposed that August 1st be made a National Day of Remembrance for the Warsaw Uprising.


During a meeting with participants of the UprIsing, the President said that he had already sent a draft bill on the issue to parliament and is confident that it will be passed.

“My initiative is connected with the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Rising and I cannot imagine it would be rejected," he said.

According to a poll conducted by Rzeczpospolita, 72 percent of the pubic were in favour of the bill, although the plans have drawn mixed responses from politicians who remain divided on the issue.

While Jan Oldakowski of the Law and Justice party (PiS) and director ...

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